Word: marse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The establishing of the Harvard station at Peru has opened up the greatest possibilities for our University in the line of development of astronomical study. A great drawback to accurate observation and the use of large apparatus at Cambridge has been the atmospheric conditions. In Peru, however, the atmospheric conditions...
University. G. C. Mars, A.M., Northwestern University, 1888.
Work under the boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region...
The seventeenth volume of the college annual. the Harvard Index. will be published this noon by the editors of last year's number, Messrs. Bigelow and Hight of the Law School. The book is uniform in size with former issues but the binding is much neater and more attractive. The...
Mars was the sun god and around him was established the worship for the seasons. Elaborate ceremonies for the celebration of spring and autumn festivals were observed. The "October horse" was known to the early Romans as a corn demon or harvest divinity. He was slain in the fall but...