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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 of course be of no use to the thieves and its intrinsic value would be a small part of the actual loss. The work at this station was conducted with great labor, a mule path had been built to the summit and the entire expenditure had been large. It will be a serious loss to science...
...electric lights, which seriously interfere with the observation of faint objects, prove an advantage in one way. They render visible faint clouds, which are carefully looked for every few minutes when the meridian photometer is in use. As the lights are below the clouds instead of above them, the latter become conspicuous even when too faint to be seen in the moonlight...
Graduate Club.The Graduate Club will hold a meeting this week on Friday evening. Professor Shaler will talk on the influence and use of environment upon education with special reference to Cambridge conditions...
...succession of entertaining anecdotes and illustrations, he brought home to each student the essential importance of a thorough acquaintance with the fundamental principles of engineering, including a good knowledge of mechanics, physics, chemistry, mathematics and drawing. The higher branches of all these studies he showed to be useful only when so thoroughly understood that they can be put to a practical use...
...fittest; that man will always reach the top of the ladder who is best able to adapt himself to the requirements of whatever position may offer. It does not depend upon how much he may know, but upon how much of his knowledge he can make of use to himself...