Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pickering, director of the Observatory, has lately devised an atteachment to a photographic telescope of such a nature that eight plates, eight by ten inches each, can be exposed in succession without disturbing the telescope. The telescope is regulated by clock-work and is designed to photograph all the bright stars that cross the meridian during the night. This instrument is much more powerful than the one of similar construction which has been in use at the Observatory during the last few years...
...remarkably clever piece of work and should make a decided hit among people acquainted with Cambridge. But from an artistic point of view the Nieu Amsterdam public square scene (the first and third acts) is the better of the two. The colors in this scene are bright and the arrangement is graceful and effective...
...Lampoon contains some material rather above the average, though other parts perhaps are hardly as bright as usual. Considerable space is devoted to deriding a well known book in one of the required courses, which, though possibly poor taste, is still moderately well done. A portion of the editorial rather picturesquely expresses the objections to a prolonged Class...
...BRIGHT Harvard men of the Senior class or Graduate School, who have made a specialty of English, and can write incisive, brilliant and up-to-date criticisms are requested to communicate with the Cambridge Literary Bureau...
...play is a musical comedy, savoring more of the legitimate light opera, perhaps, than of the musical burlesque. The most noteworthy feature of "Fool's Gold" is, perhaps, its music, which is bright and catchy from first to last. Mr. James Gilbert, who has had entire charge of the production, has devoted a great deal of attention to the chorus work this year, and some of the dances and marches are very effective...