Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...research in stellar photography conducted by Prof. Pickering, with the and of the Bache fund, with such promising results. In order to facilitate a more careful study of the spectra of the brightest stars, Mrs. Draper has loaned to the Observatory the eleven-inch photographic telescope employed by her husband, and it has been mounted with two prisms in front of the object-glass, one of which has a clear aperture of eleven inches square and an angle of nearly fifteen degrees, forming thus the most powerful equipment for stellar spectroscopy in existence...
...right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since the Fay house has become the property of the Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, has presented to this room a picture of her husband, under which is written his own verses. The "Fair Harvard" is one of the favorite recitation rooms in the Annex, and its appropriate name will undoubtedly cling...
...German citizens of Baltimore purchased the private library of Bluntschli, including his student notebooks of the lectures of Savigny and Niebuhr, and generously presented it to the Historical Library. The widow of Francis Lieber in 1884 presented to the library the entire published works of her husband, and a number of manuscript annotations in his own hands...
...college poetasters, and is, therefore, simply another example of our increasing greatness.' This reminds us of that German home philosopher who never tired of praising his wife's domestic executive abilities. At last the old woman, nourished by the warmth of continual praise, endeavored to run both house and husband. Our German turned to her admiringly and said: 'See here, frau, I like importance, but I will be contemned if I like contemned imputance.' Our German friend used abbreviated expressions, but we can't, you know. The Crimson should know that the difference between a poet and poetaster is that...
...Mascarene, daughter of Rev. Edward Holyoke, who was president of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769, in a letter to her husband dated Jan. 30, 1764, gives the following account of the Hollis fire which took place in that year...