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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the supervision of Mr. E. C. Pickering the exhibit of the Observatory and its branches has been selected and set up as it is to appear at the Paris Exposition. One hundred and four square feet of wall space have been reserved in the United States section for the exhibit, which will consist of sixteen transparencies from original plates taken at Cambridge and Arequipa, three wing frames holding about two hundred pictures of star clusters and planets, and twenty wall pictures of work done at observatories. The exhibits are arranged in order to a height of thirteen feet...
...open practices, the offense was erratic and dependent upon the individual brilliancy of a set of backs which in numbers and efficiency is the best Harvard has ever had. But in the secret practices of the past two weeks, the interference has been greatly strengthened and unity has come from careful coaching and from the final selection of the halfbacks. End plays have again been the strongest against the smaller colleges, but line plunging, which was so successful against Pennsylvania last year, has been worked up to a better state of development than ever before. Four or five tricks have...
...play was fast and fairly accurate. Ward took the net as usual and won the first set by sharp volleying and clever placing. In the succeeding sets, Marvin steadied down and from the base line passed Ward frequently. His back-hand stroke was very speedy and his low ground-strokes were effective against Ward's net game...
...Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession of the Boer government. Although...
After the debate the following officers were elected for the week: President, C. H. Schovel; secretary, A. E. Hunt. For the first three weeks a different set of officers will be elected every week...