Word: orion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undergraduates to all kinds of physical exercises and out-of-door sports. Football, baseball and cricket were played, while boating on the Charles River was a pastime popular with all. There were at Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman at morning prayers gave out the hymn by Cowper which ends...
...important discovery has been made at the Astronomical Observatory by means of the new 24-inch reflecting telescope obtained with the anonymous fund of 1902. This telescope has been used in measuring the light from three of the variable stars discovered recently near the nebula of Orion by means of photographic plates. These measurements have proved conclusively that the light from these faint stars varies, a fact which heretofore had been unestablished. Before the telescope was completed it was not expected that such accurate work would be possible, and the discovery is of interest both because it shows the progress...
...seven and one-half inch equatorial telescope lent by Mr. G. R. Agassiz '84, will be used on these evenings to show such celestial objects of general interest as are favorably situated for observation. Among those to be seen for the present are moon, the great nebula in Orion, clusters and double stars...
...photographs of the heavens in the region where the new star appeared. These photographs were taken before and after its appearance and include negatives made from the spectrum of the star. When the spectrum first appeared, it did not show the star to be different from those of the Orion type, but the change that took place later brought the spectrum into similarity with that of a typical new star. Photographic astronomy has not in the case of previous new stars, shown this change. The star has decreased in brillanoy, until now it is barely visible to the naked...