Word: lights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tested for sensitiveness. Mr. Ring, assistant at the Observatory, has found the shape which an aperture must have in order to give a shaded area on each plate that will vary in intensity in arithmetical ratio. By means of a narrow strip on each plate, varying from a very light shade to one of considerable darkness, the magnitude of the stars photographed may be measured with accuracy...
...round work of the team was the best that has been seen this season. Considering the tour as a whole, the chief features were the unusually fine pitching of Jayne and the excellent work of Bradley and Butler. Since the team's return on Thursday last, there have been light practices, with a game on Saturday against the Pennsylvania State College which resulted in a victory for Princeton by a score...
...second shoot of the season took place yesterday afternoon. Owing to the bad light and the lack of practice the scores were very poor, not more than forty per cent. of the birds being broken. Two of the M. I. T. Gun Club men were present to inspect the grounds, as they are to practice there on Saturdays during the coming term...
...will be thoroughly appreciated by those who wish to take up the game in the spring. There is always a large number of men in Cambridge who, for lack of time and for various other reasons, cannot go in for the heavier athletics, and for such men tennis affords light out-of-door exercise in a very convenient and pleasant form...
...Somers '99 are the best men who have yet appeared. Clarke is rapidly getting into good shape and his ankle seems to be troubling him very little; Somers has developed unexpected ability. The work of the high jumpers, who have been practicing all winter, has been very light. Morse, however is doing as well outdoors as he has done indoors...