Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Pickering has announced an anonymous gift to the Observatory of $20,000, with no conditions attached as to its expenditure. It is proposed to use $10,000 immediately to erect an extension to the building in which the 115,000 valuable photographic negatives belonging to the Observatory are kept. The present building's accommodations have for a long time been insufficient for the housing of this collection of negatives which furnish a history of the entire stellar universe for the past twelve years and which is not duplicated anywhere in the world...
...valuable new photographic instrument has lately been purchased by the Observatory. It is known as a Ross-Geiss lens and will be used for photographing and charting the sky. It was constructed especially for this purpose, and will cover a larger field than any other instrument at the Observatory. Owing to its wide range it will now be possible to chart the sky every night, whereas previously this has been possible only three times a month, and consequently many phenomena have been unobserved. The instrument has already been put up and is now ready for use...
...sculpture. Many little terra-cotta figures, about six inches in height, have been discovered, all of which are perfectly proportioned and wrought. These show the dress of the early peoples, the short tunics and curious headdress of the women, and the large earrings which were in general use...
...annual Dudleian lecture was delivered by Professor Josiah Royce last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room. The prescribed subject was "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned...
...annual Dudleian Lecture will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock by Professor Josiah Royce. The subject, the first of the series of four prescribed in 1750 by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley, is "The proving, explaining and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." The lecture will be open to the public...