Word: objections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Except in case of urgent need, the announcement of each meeting shall be posted on the bulletin board, and its object stated, one week in advance...
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...object shall be to promote comradeship among present and past students and officers of Harvard University, by providing at Cambridge a suitable Club House for social purposes...
...these plates are developed in the observatory dark room, by a mechanical method, recently devised by a member of the department. Twelve plates are placed at one time in a brass frame, which is kept in vertical motion by the action of a large pendulum. As the object is to get the faintest details, rather than the artistic effect of lights and shadows all plates are treated as if under exposed. In this way twenty-four plates may be developed simultaneously without requiring any constant attention. Previously this same work required the attention of several men, during a long period...
...controlled by a central electrical station. By the use of a switch board one man can operate from this station as many of the instruments as he may desire. In order that the motion of the earth may not effect the relative position of the photographic telescope and the object, the instrument is moved on an axis parallel to the earth and regulated by clock work in such a way that the distance the earth moves to the East is neutralized by the motion of the telescope in the opposite direction. By the eight inch Draper telescope the entire...