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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Standing broad jump. - Rowe '92, 9 feet 1 inch...
...students at Exeter have decided upon a school pin. There were fifty-four designs submitted and the one selected was drawn by Tiffany. The pin as chosen is to be one of sterling silver in the shape of a bar a little over a half-inch long and a quarter inch wide. The sides are finished in scroll work and the word Exeter in crimson enamel runs the length of the pin. The price of the pin is to be two dollars...
second, Henken '93, with 1 inch, on an actual jump of 5 feet 5 inches...
...Peru was selected and a station established. It is over 8000 feet above the sea level and is especially fortunate in the remarkable steadiness of the air and the clearness of the sky. The Bashe telescope was mounted and during the year, 1224 photographs have been taken. The thirteen-inch equatorial - which is the largest refracting telescope in the southern hemisphere - was also mounted and, although as yet no photographs have been taken with it, the expectation is that great results in that line, will eventually be attained. A stone residence has been built for the observers, at considerable expense...
...photographs have been made, embracing the spectra of all the stars visible in Cambridge. Among the collection are a series of negatives, representing the condition of the sky for the past six years, and they are supposed to be the most complete set that exists. The six-inch telescope has been used for observing the variable stars and investigating photometric methods of observation. From the photographs taken in Peru it has been discovered that eight variable stars, in addition to the thirty previously noticed ones, have hydrogen lines, bright in their spectra, and by this property, five new variable stars...