Word: taking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last spring a plan was proposed at the Observatory for the construction of a telescope of unusual length for the purpose of photographing the stars and planets. Anonymous donors have now furnished the means by which this experiment may be tried. The plan will, therefore, take definite shape, and it is expected that a telescope, having an aperture of 12 inches and a length of a hundred feet or more will be ready for trial at Cambridge in a few weeks...
...before October 21. The two men in each section winning the largest number of games will be qualified to enter for the final round. No prizes will be offered this year, as the object of the tournament is to pick a team for the intercollegiate contest which will take] place in New York this fall...
...play, and that the men are in splendid physical condition. The large number of coaches also tended to brace the play of the weaker men in the line. W. C. Forbes '92, head coach last year, was out for the first time this season, but did not take a very active part in the work. M. Donald '99 and J. Cranston '91 were, however, out in football clothes, and with coach Dibblee, directly applied the principles they wished to teach the men. In addition, A. E. Doucette '95, F. Mason '95, J. D. Upton '93, and N. Cabot '98, were...
...Weld and Newell boat clubs is now fairly under way. Two eights went out from the Newell Club yesterday afternoon. One was composed of Seniors and Juniors and was stroked by F. L. Higginson, Jr., '00, and the other was a Freshman barge. Glendon, the new coach, will take charge of the crews this afternoon and will pay particular attention to the Freshmen...
...that of previous years, in that instead of one team there will be both a first and a second. The grading of the men will be made after the first practice on Saturday at Wellington, at which all candidates for the team will be present. The first match will take place with the B. A. A. in the first week in November. The intercollegiate shoot will be held at Wellington on the morning of the eighteenth of November, the day of the Yale game. Yale, U. of P., Columbia, Princeton and Harvard will be represented...