Word: nucleus
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There are eight large instruments and several smaller telescopes at the Observatory. The largest telescope is 15 inches in diameter and has a power of magnifying 5000 times. This instrument, the gift of the Hon. David Sears, was the nucleus upon which the Observatory was first started in 1843. The four Gregorian Reflectors of different diameters are used for photographic purposes only. Nearly all the modern instruments and appliances for surveying the heavens are at the Observatory A large part of the time signals of New England is furnished by the time service of the Observatory...
...cricket team this year begins the season with unusually bright prospects for success. Although several players of the eleven last year have gone, there still remains a majority of experienced players who will form an admirable nucleus for a new team. They are under the charge of an energetic and competent captain; and moreover are to have the help of a good coach. The earnest way in which the men have started in work is another encouraging sign. The most noteworthy and promising fact, however, is the steady growth of the game in popular college favor. Ever since the first...
...Peabody Museum has passed through the period of isolation which it has had to undergo as a product of private endowment through the beneficence of Mrs. Thaw. The Semitic Museum contains an interesting nucleus for a valuable collection. Five thousand dollars have been spent on books, manuscripts, inscriptions, photographs, casts, coins, electrotypes, impressions of seals and tablets...
...team which Harvard will face at Springfield tomorrow is probably the strongest team Yale has ever put in the field. Captain Rhodes began the season with a nucleus of old and experienced players; besides himself there were Heffelfinger, Hartwell, the two Morisons, McClung and Harvey; in addition Williams and C. Bliss had had some experience and had shown themselves valuable men. Holcomb had served an apprenticeship of three years on the second eleven, and Wallis, Mills, Adams and Crosby had all done good work in the same training school. Barbour had done good work at Exeter and on the freshman...
...German philologist declared that the Nibelugenlied was the work of one man. He made out twenty component parts in it, the rest having been added at different times as it was handed down. These twenty lays dealing with the Nibelungen note form the nucleus of the song. The Nibelungenlied is in substance a tragedy, and an unparalleled phenomenon in the world's history. It assumed its present form in the 12th century, and it is from Norwegian sources that we have poems showing its form. The song is a myth signifying the victory of the seasons. Summer appeared...