Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Within the past two or three years several expeditions have been sent from Harvard to various parts of the continent with the purpose of making a special study of one or more of the heavenly bodies. Of all these expeditions none have been more signally successful than the expedition sent to California in December of last year to make observations of the sun's eclipse which occurred on January 1. The party was under the charge of Professor William H. Pickering, and to him must be given much of the praise which is due the remarkable success attending the efforts...
...close study of these photographs, the eclipse of 1889 will be looked upon, among men devoted to the study of practical astronomy, as marking an epoch in the history of solar physics. The great thirteen-inch Boyden telescope, with a lens specially corrected for photographic work, was successfully operated in securing eight large-scale pictures of the sun's corona, and these appear certain to be the finest representations of this strange object ever obtained. Up to this perion the great trouble has been that the representations of the sun's corona have been of so small a size...
...last summer have left college. We hope this appeal will be answered by every man who feels that he has any ability in field or track athletics. The number of candidates for the Mott Haven team in past years has always been very large, and to this fact its success is largely to be attributed We hope, therefore, that the call for men this year will be heeded, and that there may be no lack of men from whom a strong team may be chosen to meat our rival colleges in New York next...
...there-fore decided to bring the question of electric lights for the library directly before the corporation by means of a petition. The method to be employed in getting signatures for the petition will be the same as that used for the petition against compulsory prayers, which was so successful three years ago. A circular containing the petition which is published on the first page, will be sent to every member of the faculty, instructor and student in college, so as to be received in tomorrow morning's mail. Enclosed with the petition will be found a postal card, requiring...
...success of the petition depends upon a full expression of opinion from all who are connected with the college-members of the faculty, instructors and students alike-will you have the kindness to answer immediately the enclosed postal card affirmatively or negatively...