Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Student Volunteer Committee urgently requests the names of men who can play any musical instrument, or entertain in any way, and who are willing to give up one or more nights during the winter for the benefit of the inmates of the city institutions. Heretofore Harvard men have organized small visiting troupes and quartettes, or have gone singly for this purpose, giving entertainments at the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Lunatic Asylum, the Truant School, the Home for Incurables, and the State Reform School. Men who can do anything in the way of brightening the lives of these people are urged...
...been put to in Cambridge during the past few months, and it has already given good results at the hands of Mr. S. B. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, who last May took several photographs of the sun eclipse with it from a point in North Carolina. The instrument is taken to Jamaica that the work may be undertaken in the topics, a region better adapted for astronomical observations. It is especially hoped that some better photographs of the moon can be made than have been produced heretofore. If the work proves satisfactory the telescope will probably be sent...
...Observatory has nearly completed its arrangements for observing the total eclipse of the sun on May 28. The object of this observation is to discover whether a body exists between Mercury and the sun. For the observation a photographic instrument has been constructed which will take pictures of stars of the eighth magnitude at the time of eclipse. Three weeks ago this instrument was sent to Washington, Georgia, the site selected for observing the eclipse, and it is now being mounted there. On Monday Professor Pickering will start South to complete the preparations. He will be accompanied...
This school of poets in prose, of which M. de Regnier discussed the most important members, has made important changes in the French language. It has always been an instrument readily adaptable to elegance and precision of expression, but these prose poets have brought to light an old musical quality, which is now in a state of development, and which will have an important bearing on the future of French Literature...
...Harvard Observatory will send an expedition to Alabama to observe the total eclipse of the sun which occurs May 28, 1900, to discover whether or not there is an intermercurial planet. A photographic instrument has been made with nine plates arranged in three rows, attached so that a curved field can be obtained. The light of the sky around the sun at the time to the total eclipse will be sufficient to darken these plates appreciably, but not so much but that stars of the eighth magnitude will appear. The existence of a small intermercurial planet is possible...