Word: directors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
...director of the Student Volunteer Committee is planning a conference of volunteer workers to be held on Tuesday evening, April 30. All students engaged in any form of charitable enterprise, whether at the Prospect Union or Social Union, in connection with one of the religious societies, or under the personal guidance of the director himself, and only such, are to be invited to this conference. Short addresses will be made by members of the Advisory Board, by invited guests, but chiefly by students, who will present brief reports of the different kinds of work in which they are engaged...
Last night Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, gave an interesting lecture in the University Museum on "Some European Zoological Stations and Museums." Mr. Agassiz is an authority on this subject, having spent over two years in Europe 1870-71 in visiting all of the most important museums. The lecture in brief was as follows...
...CONN., Feb. 25 - The newly elected Yale News board tonight organized for the year by electing the following officers: Chairman, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., of New York City; business manager, James B. Neale, of Kittanning, Pa. Chairman Yale Alumni Weekly, F. E. Wyerhauser, of St. Paul, Minn., and associate director, W. E. Forepaugh. L. S. Welch '87 will be retained as managing resident editor...
...movement has been started at New Haven to make Walter Camp a member of the college faculty as "Director of Athletics...