Word: chromaticisms
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Professor Hastings of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School has succeeded in so combining lenses that the chromatic aberration of the common telescope is reduced one twentieth. The invention will prove an invaluable aid to astronomical photography.
The overture to the Freichuetz was given with great warmth and vigor, notwithstanding slight uncertainness in the horns. The most interesting number on the programme was Mr. Kneisel's solo. The piece is a difficult one and requires enormous technique as well as sureness on the part of the player...
It is no wonder, in view of these facts, that the microscope received much attention, and as early as the first part of the seventeenth century the "compound microscope" was invented. Henceforth the progress of the instrument was that of mechanical skill and scientific knowledge. The establishing of the theory...
TO THE EDITORS OF THE HERALD: It would be a great convenience to men who are preparing for the examinations if the musical (?) fiend in the north entry of Thayer would cease his chromatic gyrations until after the semis. '83.