Word: northern
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...million measurements were made of some 80,000 stars. In carrying on this work, a stations has been maintained in the southern hemisphere, at Arequipa, Peru, and the stars in that portion of the heavens have been observed by the same system as that used here in the northern hemisphere. As a result of the work of these two stations, a scale of magnitudes has now been established and accepted by international consent...
...northern division of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Bowdoin, will hold the preliminary match in the Hemenway Gymnasium on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, March 21. About the same time, the southern division will hold its preliminary round and two weeks later the intercollegiate finals will be held in New York. There are four colleges represented in each of the two divisions, and after the elimination of one college from each, there will be six teams to compete for the championship...
...incidental accidents which inevitably retard the schedule of construction of a large building, the progress on the Widener Library has been very satisfactory to those in charge. The delays have, by this time, been made up for and it is hoped that the roof will be completed on the northern half of the building before the seriously cold weather sets in. On the southern half, because of the bookstacks which occupy practically this entire portion, it is doubtful whether progress can be made as rapidly...
Harvard University will send an expedition to Northern Europe to study rock formations in an effort to determine the relative ages of America and the Old World. Assistant Professor P. E. Raymond will accompany the expedition and will sail for Russia in April. He will be followed in June by Professor Twenhofel, of the University of Kansas. The party will start from St. Petersburg and will work throughout the summer in Northern Russia, Sweden, and Norway...
...summer military instruction camps at Monterey, Cal., and 'Gettysburg, Pa., were so successful last year that the War Department has decided to continue them this year, under the same system but in different localities. There will probably be four camps this summer, one in the lake region of northern New York or farther east in the mountain country; one in the mountain and spring region of Virginia or a little to the south; one in the northern part of the Middle Stated; and one in the central section of the Pacific Coast...