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...observer. The most delicate test for a change in the direction of the vertical is to be found in the precise observations of stars for latitude. A photographic zenith telescope locates the position of the zenith with respect to the stars with the order of accuracy of about a hundredth of a second of arc, which corresponds to a foot on the earth's surface. Several thousands of such observations for latitude were made some time ago by Ross at Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of the stations of the International Latitude Survey. It was the recent analysis of this series...
...Widener Treasure Room has at present on display a collection of rare and valuable Oliver Goldsmith manuscripts. These original copies have been placed on exhibition in recognition of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Irish author. The collection of the Treasure Room itself has been supplemented by the loan of several note-worthy manuscripts from the library of A. H. Parker '97. The most interesting books on display are: a very rare first edition of "The Traveller" with an inscription by the author; Horace Walpole's private copy of the "Retaliation," which was printed...
Publicity is the sole weapon that cuts the forger's revenue. Unfortunately it is always wielded too late. There may be news in the fact that two days before, ninety-nine merchants and lawyers dropped several grand on bogus tickets but there is no solace if you are the hundredth...
...outline of Harvard history from the foundation of the College in 1636 to the present time by Professor Morison, who is the author of several books on American history and who is concerned at present with a "Tercentennial History of Harvard" to be published in 1936 on the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard...
...near future the John Barnard Associates will publish their first regular publication entitled "A Leaf of Grass from Shady Hill.. with a review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, written by Charles Eliot Norton in 1855." The book is in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Eliot Norton '46. The book is now being printed at the Harvard University Press...