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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expedition will take complete apparatus for the important work of photographing the spectrum of the sun and in addition will carry an ingenious instrument for measuring the brightness of the corona. One of the assistants started yesterday with a large part of the apparatus, for Peru; where a thorough study of the southern heavens will be made. While it is not yet assured that a permanent station will be established south of the equator, nevertheless the idea is seriously entertained and a part of the work of the expedition will be the examination of the exact facts in regard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Astronomical Expedition to Peru. | 11/16/1888 | See Source »

...photometric observation of stars will be performed with the same instrument and according to the same method and standard as that by which that part of the heavens visible in Cambridge, from the pole to 30 degrees south of the equator has been already surveyed. Photographs will be made of the spectra of the southern stars and of the stars themselves directly. A complete map of the southern field will be made by combining a series of photographs taken in a systematic manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Astronomical Expedition to Peru. | 11/16/1888 | See Source »

...speaker began by saying that in order to attain art, you must have the instruments; the instrument of a comedian lies within himself; it is his body. his life. The comedian must, when he produces a character, enter completely into its spirit. He must penetrate the impressions conveyed by the author, and at the same time give the character as intended by the author and not as conceived by himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Coquelin's Lecture. | 10/31/1888 | See Source »

JACOB WENDELL, JR., Secretary H. A. A.CANDIDATES for the brass band will meet in Roberts' Hall, Tuesday evening, October 16, at 7.30 o'clock. Every man who plays any brass band instrument is invited. Bring instruments if possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 10/16/1888 | See Source »

JACOB WENDELL, JR., Secretary H. A. A.CANDIDATES for the brass band will meet in Roberts' Hall, Tuesday evening, October 16, at 7.30 o'clock. Every man who plays any brass band instrument is invited. Bring instruments if possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices | 10/15/1888 | See Source »

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