Word: novels
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...novel astronomical instrument has been prepared for the observatory and is now about to be put into use. This "horizontal telescope," as it is called, is the first on record, though the principles on which it is based are not new. It was planned by Professor E. C. Pickering and constructed by Mr. G. B. Clark, of the celebrated firm of Cambridge telescope makers. Its chief use will be for photometric observations, especially in classifying the stars into three groups, those visible to the naked eye, the catalogue stars or those from the sixth to the ninth magnitude, and those...
...novel and most important feature of the telescope is the mirror. This is polsed or hinged so that it may be set at whatever angle is necessary for reflecting the object of study into the telescope field; but there is this strict limit of the range of observation, that the object must be at or near to meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror...
...novel feature has been incorporated in the plans for the park which is to be laid out on that portion of the Charles River embankment between Craigie's and the West Boston bridges. This feature is an open-air gymnasium, an affair unlike anything ever before attempted by a municipality. The plan is intended for the benefit of the working men, at whose command it will place the means for the improvement, development and exercise of the physical man. The whole plan is experimental, and its continuance will depend upon the manner in which the public takes to the idea...
Reinhold's Overture in A, the first number, had been given in Boston lately, and is the subject of much praise. The movement is delicate but marked, with two principal themes, which are worked out in an extended manner, showing a novel use of brass and wood-wind...
...novel football game will be played in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on March 7. The orchestra will be floored over and covered with soft matting, thus giving a field little smaller than the regulation size, and no harder than the turf. The ball will not be allowed to be kicked, and the game will be strictly a running one. The game will be between the regular University of Pennsylvania eleven and an amateur eleven known as the Rivertons, which will be strengthened by four well-known Princeton players-Hancock,'88, as quarter-back; Cowan, '88, and L. Price...