Word: california
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Observatory has received despatches from the Lick Observatory in California stating that C. D. Perine on Nov. 17 discovered a comet in the constellation Virgo. The comet has increased steadily in brightness being now of about the fourth magnitude. Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares...
Samuel T. Bates, an instructor in Greek at Harvard about ten years ago, died last Friday in California...
...game between Leland Stanford University and the University of California for the championship of the Western coast, will be played on Thanksgiving day. Yale-Princeton rules will be used...
Graduating from the Harvard Law School in 1851, he went to California by water, thence to the Hawaiian Islands, where he occupied a prominent position in the legislative and judicial courts, till his return to this country in 1872 for the education of his four sons. While in Hawaii he was elected member of the Hawaiian parliament for three sessions and was then appointed judge of the Supreme Court of the Islands...
...University of California has added several good men with records to their track team, namely: Cheek '99, pole vault 10 ft. 5.5 in., running broad jump 21 ft. 11.75 in., running high jump 5 ft. 7 in., shot put 39 ft., 100 yard dash 11 sec., Marmon '99, 100 yards 102/5 sec., 440 yards 52 sec.; Loyd, shot put 39 ft. 7 in., pole vault 10 ft., running broad jump...