Word: shower
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...track team had outdoor practice on the Yale field for the first time last Wednesday. The track house has been greatly improved by an increase in the number of lockers and shower-baths...
...musical programme for the Vesper Service to be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock is as follows: "The Beatitudes," Chadwick; "Lord, Shower Upon Us From Above," Stainer; "Hark, Hark My Soul," Shelley...
...Observatory has abandoned its attempts to photograph the expected shower of leonids this year in consequence of the unusual rarity of meteors which have been sighted. On Friday night a watch was kept for the shower but only a few desultory meteors fell before a fog arose and precluded further observations. A casual watch was again kept on Saturday night, but not a single meteor was observed. As the extraordinary showers which were predicted to occur about the year 1899 have not materialized, it is probable that the Observatory will make no further attempt to obtain photographs of leonids...
...watch will be kept at the Observatory tonight and the succeeding nights of the week for the shower of Leonids which is expected to occur within a few days. The photographic apparatus is adjusted by electricity so that the cameras are continuously exposed to the same portion of the sky. Several other instruments for determining the velocity and angular projection of the meteors have been mounted and are ready to be operated at any moment. It is thought that tomorrow night will be the time for the appearance of the meteors this year, although no definite forecast can be made...
Preparations have been made to photograph from the University Observatory the shower of meteorites which is expected to occur this week. In 1833 and 1867 the meteoric displays were of extraordinary brilliance; in the fall of 1899 it was expected that a shower as extraordinary as in those two years would be visible, and although to unusual display appeared, astronomers look again this year for an exceptionally brilliant shower. Those marked display seem to occur after periods roughly averaging about thirty-three years. November 13 is the day believed the most likely date for the display this fall...