Word: abram
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...telescope for photographing stars has just been completed by Abram Clark and Sons for the Harvard Observatory. The instrument is now in position at the observatory, equatorially mounted while its movements are controlled by clock work which is directly connected with a chronometer in the main building...
...last meeting of the Appalachian Club, which was held on Wednesday, at the Institute of Technology, Mr. Abram G. Clark of Cambridge, the well-known manufacturer of large telescopes, was present, and gave an account of his recent visit to the observatory, telling about the views of the rings of Saturn and his discovery of a new star in the traperium of Orion...
...reserved for the fair sex at these Harvard dinners. Mr. Edmund C. Wetmore, the president of the club, presided. Among the guests of the evening were President Eliot, General W. T. Sherman, Prof. G. H. Balmer, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of Columbia, and General Charles J. Paine. President Eliot responded eloquently to the toast "Our Alma Mater." Among other things he said that Harvard men were not so anxious for victory as they were to play fairly, and suggested that some other means be selected for competition than...
...members of the class of '89, of Harvard University, wish to express the profound sorrow which we feel at the death of William Abram Levi. We realize that in him we have lost one whom we had learned to admire for his sterling qualities and amiable disposition. A conscientious student and one of our highest scholars, he gave promise of a brilliant and useful manhood...
...Brooklyn bridge was formally and successfully opened to the public yesterday, with appropriate ceremonies. Orations were delivered by the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt and the Rev. R. S. Storrs. Speeches were also made by the mayors of New York and Brooklyn. A grand pyrotechnic display occurred in the evening, followed by a public reception to the President and other distinguished guests...