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...annual interscholastic track meet scheduled for a week from tomorrow, point out one more way by which Harvard can strengthen the tie which binds it to the preparatory schools of the neighborhood. The tournament and the meet, receiving, as they do, the official sanction of the University, naturally form focal points upon which the interest of preparatory school athletes is centered. They are, therefore, essentially successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERSCHOLASTIC CREW. | 5/17/1912 | See Source »

Harvard square is now at the beginning of an important transition. The new subway has made the square an important public open space and a focal point of the city. This has lead the city of Cambridge as a whole, as well as the property owners and business men on Harvard square, to have a plan prepared which will consider in a careful and comprehensive way all those influences which will affect the development of the square and its vicinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FULFILLMENT OF OUR HOPES | 4/12/1912 | See Source »

...tube 21 feet long with a 60-inch aperture is being made and much of the old clock work and appliances will be changed for new ones operated by electricity. The reflecting lens is about 6 inches thick and weighs, with its cell, about a ton. The focal length is 28 1-2 feet. This gives an image upon a scale of 6 inches for a degree. The whole instrument will be covered by a moveable wooden shelter connected with a frame building, the upper floor of which is the observing room, the lower floor the silvering room. This telescope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Telescope at the Observatory. | 11/3/1904 | See Source »

...mirrors will be sent first for experimental purposes previous to setting up the whole instrument. An open space in the eastern part of the Observatory grounds near Bond street has been chosen as the site for the telescope. On account of its great height, about 27 feet in focal length, no dome will be erected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Telescope for the Observatory. | 10/3/1904 | See Source »

...lenses, which were made by Clark of Cambridge, are twenty-four inches in diameter, the focal length of the combination being seven feet three inches. A photographic plate fourteen by seventeen inches will be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bruce Telescope. | 10/26/1893 | See Source »

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