Word: south
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About ten o'clock Saturday night, a student rooming in the south entry of Stoughton Hall noticed a strong smell of smoke and investigation showed that it came from room 11 occupied by E. S. Grifling and M. A. Kilvert, '89. An alarm was sounded from box 59, which brought several engines and a large crowd to the spot. The door was burst open and the floor was found to be in a blaze. It is probable that coals from the grate fell out upon the floor and burnt a hole through. The fire then crept along under the floor...
...amount of work done by the professors at the observatory be fully comprehended and appreciated. We feel confident in saying that no other college in this country has ever attempted a work of such magnitude and importance in astronomy as the professors who are about to start south have undertaken. They will be gone two years, devoting much of their time to the study of the condition of the heavens in South America. Such an undertaking certainly deserves the best of success, and we trust it may achieve all the good results it hopes to bring about...
...astronomical expedition which the authorities at Harvard University have so long contemplated is now fairly started on its journey South. Primarily, the object of the expedition is to make a complete survey of the southern heavens to supplement the survey of the northem heavens which has been going on the last six years at Cambridge. As three-fourths of the survey has been accomplished here at Cambridge it will not be necessary for the expedition to remain in the South more than two years to finish it entirely...
...ingenious instrument for measuring the brightness of the corona. One of the assistants started yesterday with a large part of the apparatus, for Peru; where a thorough study of the southern heavens will be made. While it is not yet assured that a permanent station will be established south of the equator, nevertheless the idea is seriously entertained and a part of the work of the expedition will be the examination of the exact facts in regard to climate and atmospheric clearness, facilities for work and transportation, communications, etc., to be found in Peru. The country is barren...
...photometric observation of stars will be performed with the same instrument and according to the same method and standard as that by which that part of the heavens visible in Cambridge, from the pole to 30 degrees south of the equator has been already surveyed. Photographs will be made of the spectra of the southern stars and of the stars themselves directly. A complete map of the southern field will be made by combining a series of photographs taken in a systematic manner...