Word: sky
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recorded in the seventy-five quarto volumes published by the institution. It is part of a great international plan for the purpose of studying the heavens and all of its work has not so much local as international significance. A society representing all the leading nations divided the sky into about twenty zones for the purpose of thorough observation and two of these zones were taken by the Harvard Observatory...
...gallery of paintings. The raising of the roof will greatly enhance the facility of carrying on all departments, but the greatest gain is that of light for the main gallery and the stair corridor. A new sloping, slate roof has been built over the north exhibition room and the sky-lights have been considerably raised. The photograph rooms will have the advantage of added space on the side wings, and exhibition cases will be installed in the new quarters as soon as possible...
...Warren K. Blodgett has loaned a painting attributed to Daubigny, representing a dark headland standing our against a light sea and a gray sky...
...only protection afforded consists of a few extinguishers and some scrawny ropes. And to make the situation worse, the gas lights in the halls are extinguished at 12 o'clock, leaving the halls and stairs in inky darkness. The stairways in Matthews and Weld are so arranged, with the sky-light directly above them, that a fire once started would have a full sweep from the ground floor to the top, and would cut off the inmates from this means of exit...
Echos to the sky...