Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor E. C. Pickering and constructed by Mr. G. B. Clark, of the celebrated firm of Cambridge telescope makers. Its chief use will be for photometric observations, especially in classifying the stars into three groups, those visible to the naked eye, the catalogue stars or those from the sixth to the ninth magnitude, and those from the ninth to the fourteenth magnitude. It will also be valuable for the study of nebulae and Stella spectra, observations of occultations and observations for position...
...lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, yesterday afternoon, Dr. Wheeler delivered his sixth lecture in the series on the Athenian Acropolis. The room was again filled and Dr. Wheeler's talk on the Marbles of the Parthenon was listened to with an interest which must certainly be flattering to the lecturer...
Professor Royce's sixth lecture on Forensics will be given today in Sever...
...school has about three hundred scholars, ranging in age from about eleven or twelve to twenty. They are divided into six forms and a "remove" or graduate department. A man is ready for college at the end of his fifth form year, the sixth form being equivalent to our freshman class. School work begins at nine and lasts until noon; commences again at four and continues till six, with a half-holiday Wednesdays and Saturdays. In addition, an hour in the evening is devoted to preparing the next day's lessons. Marks are given on each recitation under the heads...
FORENSICS.Professor Royce's sixth lecture on Forensics will be given Tuesday, February 26, in Sever...