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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large portion of the investigatory work has been in the field of stellar spectra. Professor Pickering, in conjunction with others, has derived a new method of determining the relative motion of two stars in the line of sight. The method depends on the calculation, by means of photographic plates, of the relative variation in the position of the spectra of the two moving stars. There is reasonable belief that this method will enable such calculations to be made with a degree of accuracy hitherto unobtainable. The spectra of many obscure stars have been carefully studied, and in some cases, peculiar...
...plants for winter and the setting-out of bulbs for next year's bloom is now progressing. Within the conservatories where the winter plants are just beginning to bloom, and where one may, as far as plants are concerned, pass through all the zones in a few moments, the sight is a beautiful one and worth seeing...
...material is plentiful but poorly distributed with respect to the needs of the team. To fill up the holes in the centre of the line but three available men are now in sight. These are Crowdis, substitute for two years; Armstrong, who played at halfback last year, and Edwards, the Lawrenceville guard. Crowdis and Edwards have weight to spare, both of them exceeding 230 pounds, but they are lacking in activity...
...face the situation like sensible Harvard men and show the President and his fellows that the confidence they are putting in our word is not misplaced. There is more depending on the result of our next celebration, whatever it be, than is clear at first sight, and it is our duty to be perfectly frank in discussing it. First and foremost the continuance of our intercollegiate contests is at stake, and this alone makes it a matter of the utmost consequence to every student in the University. It is the merest folly to say that the Faculty could not abolish...
...every game played in Cambridge, football and baseball, for no one knows how many years, and he is always as interested in Harvard's success as the youngest and most enthusiastic undergraduate. When the fathers of those who are now in College were undergraduates, Old John was a familiar sight on Holmes field, with his shambling walk and uncouth salutations. The boldest would scarcely venture to guess at the age of this remarkable fruit seller. He is the same today as he was twenty years...