Word: directors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hayward has been elected director of Memorial from the Scientific School...
...director from the Scientific School is to be chosen at Memorial tomorrow...
...circular has just been issued by Mr. Edward C. Pickering, director of Harvard College Observatory, which describes arrangements that have been made in order to render the transmission of astronomical intelligence more speedy and accurate. An association of about 50 European observatories has recently been formed, with its headquarters at the Royal observatory, Kiel, Germany, directed by Prof. Krueger, who has taken charge of the business of the association. Connections by cable have been established with South America, South Africa and Australia, and the Harvard College Observatory has been requested to co-operate with it in the United States...
...Tourgee indorsed Judge Matthews's suggestion that Harvard College should confer the degree of D. D. upon Gov. Butler, instead of the customary LL. D. It was eminently proper that Gov. Butler should wear the significant title of D. D., indicating that he was, as he should be, the director of the divinity of Massachusetts...
...Director Swift, of the Warner Observatory, Rochester, N. Y., at 7 o'clock last evening discovered a bright telescopic comet about 2 1/4 north of the star Beta, in constellation Pegasus, having a tail about half a degree long, and slow eastward motion; about R. A. 22h. 50m., about N. Dec. 29. This is the first comet of the year, and promises to be a conspicuous object in the western...