Word: sections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Massachusetts Senate, held yesterday afternoon, bill number 290 was passed as follows: "Section 1. The exemption from taxation provided by clause third of section five of chapter twelve of the Revised Laws shall not extend to such real estate belonging to any college or university or scientific institution authorized to grant degrees, as is occupied as a residence by an officer of instruction, administration, or government of such college, university or scientific institution,--provided, that nothing herein contained shall subject to taxation any building otherwise exempt, of which less than one-half in extent and value...
...Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage...
...department with the funds necessary to erect a seismograph in the University Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station...
...Memorial Hall, at which the managers of the University football, baseball, track, hockey, basketball and lacrosse teams, and the captain of the Senior crew were present, plans were discussed for the establishment of training tables at Memorial Hall. Arrangements have been made for a special assignment of a section of the main dining room, to be set aside and separated from the other tables by screens. Two grades of food will be provided. For the major teams board will be about nine dollars per week, and for such teams as wish the expense to be about equal to that...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Colorado Springs Section." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. J. W. Eggleston. "The Attleborough Earthquake and the Seismic History of New England." Professor Woodworth. Mineralogical Lecture Room...