Word: heats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pickering's report deals also with recent additions to the Astronomical Library; telegraphic announcements from all parts of the world; a new system of time service devised by Mr. Gerrish; the means of protection from fire at the Observatory, which are, it seems, but scant; the installation of steam heat in the west wing of the Observatory and a list of the year's publications...
During the recent eclipse of the moon Professor Pickering of the Astronomical Observatory ascertained that the bright spot around the Linne crater on the surface of the moon had increased considerably during the eclipse when deprived of the heat of the sun. Professor Pickering is inclined to the belief that this was caused by a light deposit of hoar frost. The observations bore him out, showing by the most accurate kind of micrometic measurements that the spot had increased during the time the moon was obscured. That the spot is a deposit of hoar frost and not light reflected from...
...final heat for the championship of the Interscholastic Rowing Association will be rowed this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock over the mile course, beginning at the Harvard Bridge and ending at the Union Boat Club. The schools represented in the finals are Hopkinson, Stone's, Noble and Greenough's and Browne and Nichols...
...Third heat--Won by Brown and Nichols; second, Cambridge Latin; third, Boston Latin; fourth, English High. Time...
...three crews winning second places yesterday will race today at 4 o'clock and the winning crew in this heat will race on Thursday, for the championship with the three winners of the preliminary heats...