Word: station
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ninth annual report of the director of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory for eleven months ending September 30, 1894, has just been published. The most important events of the year have been the practical trial of the Bruce telescope and the successful operation for several months of the Boyden meteorological station on the summit of the Misti, at a height of 19,200 feet. Unfortunately, early in September the shelter containing the instruments was found to have been broken into and a number of the instruments carried off. Apparently the robbery was committed by two Indians. The property stolen would...
...very pleasant feature of the trip was the meeting of the Harvard and Yale musical clubs in the station at Kansas City. The Yale clubs came in just as the Harvard clubs were leaving. The Harvard clubs first gave several hearty cheers for the Yale men and the latter responded with equal spirit. The Yale clubs showed their appreciation of the courtesy by sending this telegram, which reached the Harvard clubs during the Chicago concert: "To the Harvard Musical Clubs, - Happy New Year from Yale...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS. - Men must be at Boston & Albany station, Kneeland St., at 5.45 p.m. Get dinner before, and be dressed for Worcester concert...
...clubs will leave Worcester in a special sleeper arriving at New York early tomorrow morning. There they will be transferred to the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey where they will take the nine o'clock train for Baltimore by the Royal Blue Line. The second concert will be given in Baltimore tomorrow night...
...afternoon. The men have been divided into three crews irrespective of merit, and will continue to work in this way until after Christmas. Besides the work on the machines the men are put through dumb bell exercises every day, after which they take a run up to Porter's Station...