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...Northwestern in the 440-yard hurdles, the winner being forced to make the fast time of 55 1-5 seconds. Meanix, who holds the world's record of 54 3-5 seconds in this event over three-foot hurdles, was slightly handicapped by the fact that two-foot six-inch timbers were used...
...hallways, have been finished. In the large lecture room on the first floor, or which the seating capacity is three hundred, a platform has been built, and rows of iron and wooden seats are being installed. On the second floor the red oak panelling, surmounted by a six-inch cornice, in the philosophical and psychological libraries, is almost complete. Large spaces have been left between the panels for book cases. Two other small studies have been finished in the same way, but in the other rooms, merely the plaster has been stained. In the instrumental room, two long quartered...
...accordance with the vote of the Corporation for improvements to reduce the danger from fire in the Yard, work was begun, Tuesday morning, on a six-inch water main to run from the Cambridge Water Company's main on Cambridge street to that on Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, Matthews, and Wadsworth House. Yesterday the piping was laid as, far as Hollis, and a hydrant was placed opposite Holden Chapel. The main will probably be finished by Saturday, and hydrants placed opposite Harvard Hall and in front of Matthews...
...take measures for reducing the danger from fire in the Yard, and to this end it has been decided to make extensive additions to the apparatus at present available, and to institute a number of other improvements, the total cost of which will be over two thousand dollars. A six-inch water main will be run from Kirkland street to Massachusetts avenue, along the line of Stoughton, Hollis, and Matthews. To this will be attached three hydrants, the first of which will be placed opposite Holden Chapel, the second opposite Harvard Hall, and the third in front of Matthews...
Much of the work is of photographic nature and this together with the observations keep many of the instruments in constant use, among which are the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the fourteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle and the Bruce photographic telescope. The Harvard Observatory and the Kiel Obse. votary have been selected by astronomers as centres for the prompt announcement of astronomical discoveries...