Word: ladd
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last commencement it was announced that Governor H. W. Ladd was to give an astronomical observatory to Brown university. Many sites were considered, but it was finally decided to erect the building on the grounds given to the university by Mrs. Metcalf for a botanic garden and for such other uses as the university should deem best. The site selected is an excellent one for astronomical observations as the view is unobstructed, except toward the west, where it is cut off close to the horizon, but at no point higher than from...
...Ladd observatory consists of a tower which is octagonal to a height of 25 feet, where a balcony is placed, and cylindrical above the balcony to an additional height of 10 feet. Within this tower which is 21 feet in diameter, rises a heavy masonry pier where an equatorial telescope of 12 inches aperture will be placed. The tower is covered by a revolving copper dome containing a wide slit which can be turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof...
...Christine Ladd Franklin has been made a fellow of Johns Hopkins University for her achievements in mathematics...
...annual meeting of the Yale alumni took place at Worcester last Monday. Professor Ladd spoke of the recent growth of the university, to meet which he urged the speedy provision of larger resources...
LOST.- A "Ladd's Physiological Psychology." Please leave with auditor at Memorial or at Foster...