Word: washingtons
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...object of this observation is to discover whether a body exists between Mercury and the sun. For the observation a photographic instrument has been constructed which will take pictures of stars of the eighth magnitude at the time of eclipse. Three weeks ago this instrument was sent to Washington, Georgia, the site selected for observing the eclipse, and it is now being mounted there. On Monday Professor Pickering will start South to complete the preparations. He will be accompanied by Mr. J. Rayner Edmands, who selected the site, and by Mr. Attwill, who will take the photographs. A few days...
...Fred Washington Atkinson '90 has been appointed Superintendent of Education in the Philippines on the recommendation of President Eliot. Mr. Atkinson graduated from the State Normal School in Bridgewater in 1886, and was principal of the Upton High School for one year. He then entered Harvard, completing the course in three years. He has been principal of the Springfield High School for six years. Mr. Atkinson will leave for the Philippines in the early summer after visiting Hampton, Tuskegee Institute and Carlisle to study the methods used in teaching negroes and Indians...
...treasurer of the committee, E. C. Stone '01. Last year 34 dormitories were canvassed, yielding a total of 800 pieces of clothing. The larger part of this was sent to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution in Georgia which is now under the direction of Mrs. Booker T. Washington...
...meeting of the Harvard Club of St. Louis last autumn the question of founding a new university scholarship was discussed and a committee consisting of Professor Marshall S. Snow '65 of Washington University, President E. H. Sears '74 of Mary Institute, and George B. Leighton '88, was appointed by the president of the club, Dr. John Green '55, to consult the other St. Louis graduates about the matter. As a result, at the annual dinner of the club held recently, the committee was able to announce that it has been decided to found a scholarship of $300 annually for graduates...
...preparations being made by the Observatory staff to observe the total eclipse of the sun on May 28 are rapidly nearing completion. Mr. J.R. Edmands, who has been in the South selecting a post of observation for the Harvard party has reported in favor of Washington, Georgia, and the telescope to be used in the work has been sent there...