Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit of the apron-strings. With an exultant sense of freedom he will plunge into the wildest dissipation...
...observations on comets have been conducted with zeal and success - the assistants working day and night continuously when a new comet is discovered - so that several times this observatory has had the honor of announcing its orbit to America and Europe in advance of all others. The first accurate position obtained for a comet here is forwarded by cable to Europe, and has sometimes preceded the discovery of the comet abroad...
Important observations of the comet have just been completed at the Harvard Observatory, and its orbit has been satisfactorily defined...