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Miss Annie J. Cannon of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory has received from Groningen University in Holland an honorary doctor's degree in mathematics and astronomy, in acknowledgment of her work in the study of stellar spectra. She is believed to be one of the first American women to receive such a distinction from a European university for scientific work...
...Miss Cannon has long been regarded as a leading American woman astronomer. She was graduated from Wellesley in 1884, and has been associated with the Harvard Observatory since 1897. During this time she has completed a monumental catalogue of the spectra of some 220,000 stars all over the heavens, which when published will occupy nine quarto volumes. No such comprehensive study has ever been made before. She has also discovered three new stars, and 150 variable stars, and has completed a bibliography of variable stars containing about 45,000 references...
...walls of the buildings, and where a Turkish shell had come down through the three stories of College Hall and burst in the basement among the French provisions. They showed us the Professor' residence, where a number of officers and soldiers had been killed or wounded by Turkish cannon fire from a mountain six miles to the north, and where a few minutes later members of a relieving party had met the same fate. We saw the president's house, where there is not a whole pane of glass left, where the long back veranda has been blown away...
Beginning today, the Field Artillery Unit will fire sub-calibre practice with the three-inch battery. A Springfield 30-calibre bullet is used in tubes, inserted in the bores of the cannon, and miniature targets, giving somewhat the effect of actual service firing, are used...
...take another period of our national life--that which came down to the Civil War. You will find volumes--libraries of dissension touching its causes and development. The cannon shot at Sumter blew away all but the idealism. It was after that high exhibition of idealism in our Civil War that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given...