Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the more recent accessions to the laboratory in Harvard hall are the dissecting microscopes for use in Natural History 3. They are provided with Zeiss lenses, maguifying from eight to thirty times, and are ample for all analysis of flowers. From Zeiss the department has received a complete photomicrograph outfit, for use in Natural History...
SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
Being somewhat interested in athletics at Harvard I determined to investigate the truth of the above and I give below the results thus far obtained...
November 18, 1889, the manager of the Harvard nine writes me that "the report is a lie. I hope nobody believes there was any truth...
...work at the Harvard Observatory is, at present principally devoted to stellar photography. Observations are made as far south as 25 degrees beyond the equator, while the expedition sent to South America is completing the observations in the southern hemisphere. A new photographic telescope has been added to the apparatus of the Observatory similar to the 7 inch Bates telescope in Peru. The instrument consists of a telescope with an adjustment for a photographic plate holder...