Word: edward
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the construction of the Peruvian station however with the clearest atmosphere in the world, there is a pressing need for an instrument of the most powerful order. In consequence of this Prof. Edward C. Pickering has edited an eloquent pamphlet, calling for $200,000 for the manufacture and establishment of a suitable telescope. Money donated for such an object could not fail to bring immediate results, and it is hoped that this way now opening for Harvard may soon be clear for the earning of highest honors at the hands of her professors in the study of astronomy...
...Harvard Chess Club has received a copy of the deed of gift of the $400 challenge chess cup, together with the final regulations to govern the inter-collegiate tournament. The competing colleges are Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. The names of P. H. Butler, John Greenough, James J. Higginson, Edward King, and H. W. Poor appear as donors on the part of Harvard; and the Yale list includes E. A. Caswell, the originator of the scheme, and Chauncey M. Depew...
...occupies several pages with the result that the Wrecker receives no great praise, while its rival is judged 'one of the happiest and finest jests we have had for a long time.' The other articles in the number to be mentioned are the continuations of Crawford's 'Don Orsino,' Edward Everett Hale's 'New England Boyhood,' and Margaret Deland's 'Story of a Child.' The verse is signed by Clinton Scollard and Edith M. Thomas...
...Edward Everett Hale, Jr., '82, lately assistant professor in Cornell, has accepted the professorship of English Literature in the Iowa State University...
Berkeley Premiums, Class of 1895: - 1st Grade, Julian C. Bingham, George Jacobus, George D. Kellogg, Tracy Peck, Jr., Alburn E. Skinner, Charles S. Thurston; 2d Grade, John J. Dunn, Shirley T. High, Louis H. Holden, Edward C. Jones, Herbert R. Limburger, William E. Parsons, Selden W. Tyler...