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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...makes an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for funds for the care of the collection of 182,277 photographs. This collection is unique and gives the only existing history of the stellar universe for the past 20 years. Fire-proof buildings are especially needed for the library, photographic laboratory and the workshop. The total number of volumes and of pamphlets in the library on October 1, 1905, was 11,459 and 24,474, respectively...
...addition the report contains a detailed statement of the work carried on this past year in Cambridge, and at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The average of the highest altitudes obtained in each of the kite-flights, made in confection with observations taken at the latter station was 6,940 feet above sea-level, and the maximum in any flight 11,180 feet...
...them. Since the number of albums is limited by the number of applications received, each man who wishes an album is asked to sign for it, and make a deposit of $2 at his sitting at Tupper's. The price of the album will probably be $5, as in past years. It will also greatly help the committee if the men will fill out blanks, provided at Tupper's, giving their class lives. 1906 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...
...Deutscher Verein will present as its annual play this year a farce in three acts entitled "Das Stiftungsfest," by Gustav von Moser. Rehearsals will begin immediately after the mid-year period, and will continue regularly until the performances. Mr. August Vatter, who has been coach for the past four years, has been re-engaged for the present production. Two performances will be given, probably about the middle of March...
...said that class spirit in Harvard College is declining; that it is a thing of the past, a victim of the elective system. It is said that mere numbers have driven it out, and that, therefore, small colleges are preferable, since in them true class feeling exists. What are the evidences of class spirit? Class organization, which today is a thousand times more effective than ever before, activity of class secretaries, more vigorous celebrations, all go to show that class spirit at Harvard today is stronger than when Harvard was itself a small college. Is not this sure evidence that...