Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With peace college and town grew together. In 1846 bells and cannon proclaimed the granting of the city charter. Checked only by the Civil War with its toll of four hundred dead, prosperity advanced steadily to the present day Cambridge of the locked Charles, the subway, and the Waldorf...
...Cannon, C. F., 913 Boylston...
...mental effort women may be successful, they have no capacity for science. And he would note, also with a sense of awakening, that within the past few days Harvard herself has been honored by the degree in mathematics and astronomy conferred on her distinguished astronomer, "Miss Annie J. Cannon, by the University of Groningen. How much "gray matter" could have been missing from the brain of the woman who discovered three new luminaries in the sky, added 150 "variables" to the celestial map, and catalogued the spectra of 220,000 stars in all parts of the heavens? --Boston Herald...
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...