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Yale students were permitted to view the transit through the college telescope...
While the topic is yet fresh it may fitly be remarked that this is not the first occasion on which Harvard College has been creditably identified with a general observation of the transit of Venus. On the occasion of the transit of 1874 the phenomenon was not visible here, but in respect to the previous transit in 1769, and so to speak, its companion of 1761, Harvard has an honorable record. The college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country...
Yale's new heliometer gave very satisfactory results in its operations on the late transit...
...transit of Venus excited the greatest enthusiasm among the students of Trinity College where the German astronomers were located, cheers being given for all parties concerned...
...observations of the transit Wednesday at the Harvard Observatory Professor Pickering with his assistants were able to produce the finest effects obtained any where on the Atlantic coast...