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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...observations taken on January 1 by the Harvard party under Professor W. H. Pickering at Willows, Cal., were highly successful. The party consisted of Prof. Pickering and Messrs. S. Bayley, E. S. King and R. Black, and they, together with a number of local assistants, secured over fifty photographs. Fourteen telescopes and cameras were employed besides eight spectroscopes. The first contact was lost through clouds. The other three were observed at a duration of 11.8 seconds. Eight negatives were secured with a thirteen inch telescope, giving images two inches in diameter; nine with an eighteenth camera. Twenty-five negatives were...
...international cricket match committee of Philadelphia has sent out circulars to some twenty of the leading local players asking whether, if chosen, they would be able to take the trip to England next summer on the team which is to represent Philadelphia in the old country. Amongst the number is R. D. Brown...
...weather bureau is to be formed at the Institute of Technology for local observations and predictions...
...Amateur Union holds a large Athletic meeting this evening at Madison Square Garden, New York. Over 250 men from Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Newcrk, Princeton College, Yale and many local clubs, have entered for the different events. A. B. George and W. T. Young, the champion cross-country runners of England, will contest against Skillman and Gilbert of America. In the foot-ball kicking contest, Bull of the Yale eleven, will compete. Roddy and Thompson of Princeton are contestants in several events...
...bring to pass was a sumptuary one. No law should be passed that cannot be enforced. Maine is an example that the prohibitory law is useless. Mr. F. S. Stebbins, '90, spoke first on the negative. The Prohibition party has made great strides since 1884. They have gained local option and the passage of a bill authorizing instruction in public schools on the prohibition question from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Green, '89, was second on the affirmative. He said that total prohibition was impossible. There are many illicit distilleries in the South which will be sure to increase under...