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Harvard will as usual be represented in the intercollegiate strength test championship, the results of which will be made known in the early part of May. All members of the University are eligible, and the tests may be made in the gymnasium at any time before the Easter vacation. Although last year H. F. Cochems 3L made the best individual record, Harvard lost the championship to Columbia, owing to the comparatively small number of strong men who took the test...
...clock in Peabody Hall, Brooks House. The Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., of New York, will make the address. As here to fore at these University meetings, the subject touched upon will concern the deeper aspect and the religious element of men's lives. Dr. Abbott is well known as a speaker of great power and members of the University should take this opportunity of hearing...
Harvard holds a position in this country similar to that of Kiel in Europe. The routine work done here, on a scale impossible at smaller stations, has been the chief cause of the reputation which the Harvard Observatory has won. Especially well-known is the practice of photographing the heavens to secure a permanent and comprehensive record of star-movements. The number of photographs which have so far been secured with the various telescopes is as follows: Eleven inch Draper, 12,872; eight inch Draper, 25,- 890; thirteen inch Boyden, 10,214; eight inch Bache, 26,339; twenty-four inch...
...system of observation employed, known as Argelander's method, is essentially as follows. A series of stars of constant brightness is selected, as near as possible to the variable to be observed, in such a way that the brightest is somewhat brighter than the variable at its maximum intensity, and the faintest somewhat fainter than the variable at minimum. Between these extremes the stars differ one from another in brilliance by about half a magnitude, and they are designated by letters in the order of brilliance. This sequence of stars of known magnitude enables the brightness of the variable star...
...eighteen claims to be decided by the Commission, sixteen are presented by the United States against Chile, amounting to between three and four million dollars, and two (one of which is the well known Itata case) amounting to about $250,000, are presented by Chile. Mr. Strobel is counsel for the Chilian government in all these cases...