Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University band is now composed of 30 pieces, but more men are still needed, and all men in the University who have ever played a brass instrument are urged to come out. Besides playing at parades and mass meetings and at the Yale game, the band will also play at the torchlight procession in honor of the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard on November...
...football mass meetings, and at the games with Carlisle, Dartmouth, and Yale. About twenty men reported at the first rehearsal last Monday; but there should be at least forty pieces to compose a good band, and all men in the University who have ever played a brass instrument are urged to attend the next rehearsal. The student band played last year at the Yale game at New Haven...
...funds necessary to erect a seismograph in the University Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records...
...never cared very much for the closet study of exact sciences, and although he constantly applied mathematical computations in interpreting and generalizing from natural phenomena, he regarded such processes as a useful instrument of research rather than an end worth while in themselves. Tangible, physical facts were his chief interest...
...point of aperture the new instrument is the largest telescope in the world. The present plan is to use it for measuring the relative intensity of the light of different stars. It will probably be ready for use early in the summer...