Word: profs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little more than a year ago, the second expedition from Harvard was sent to make astronomical observations in South America. The first was under the direction of Mr. S. I. Bailey and was very successful. Prof. William H. Pickering was in charge of the second and, with a number of assistants, he left Cambridge in December, 1890. A site about three-miles northwest of Arequipa in Peru was selected and a station established. It is over 8000 feet above the sea level and is especially fortunate in the remarkable steadiness of the air and the clearness...
...Prof. Lyon may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from...
...Prof. D. G. Lyon will conduct prayers from...
...Prof. Shaler's new book, "Nature and Man in America" is an admirable exposition of the latest views of modern science on the relations of organic life to its environment, treated not in the method of scientific treatises, but in an easy collonial style. In the first part of the book the author traces the effects that geological changes have had upon organic life and especially upon the human race, and in doing so gives an epitome of the geological history of our continent. In the second part he speculates upon the political bearing which the geographical features have...
...Jews get their doctrine of immortality in whole or in part from the Greeks? (Consult Prof...