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...used every night from sunset to sunrise to take photographs of different parts of the sky. During the day these plates are developed in the observatory dark room, by a mechanical method, recently devised by a member of the department. Twelve plates are placed at one time in a brass frame, which is kept in vertical motion by the action of a large pendulum. As the object is to get the faintest details, rather than the artistic effect of lights and shadows all plates are treated as if under exposed. In this way twenty-four plates may be developed simultaneously...
...procession, which will be headed by a brass band composed of thirty Harvard men, will be accompanied by the football team in a tallyho, and John the Orangeman, with his cart and donkey, on a truck. The officers of the Republican clubs of the four institutions will also ride, probably in open carriages...
...musical instruments, and the art of instrumentation. 2. Written analyses and descriptions of the most important vocal and orchestral works of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Von Weber, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms and other modern composers. 3. Exercises in orchestration, with various combinations of string, wind and brass instruments, illustrated by chorals, national airs and short selections from the works of various masters, together with a few original pieces. Original compositions scored by pupils will be played in rehearsal by a Boston orchestra, so that the pupils may hear the effects of their own orchestration. Especially noteworthy...
...boat and is devoted to the steersman, so that there is no obstruction. Both cockpits are finished in white ash. The seats are slatted and so arranged that they can be taken out of the boat instantly. She is divided with four steel watertight bulkheads. Her rudder, with brass fittings on the outside, is made of teak. All the deck fittings are of polished bronze, including the deck plates fore and aft, chocks and cleats, heavy stemband, flagpole sockets, rudder cap and fittings. The steering wheel is of polished brass with mahogany handles. The boat is painted white above...
...launch is white with a temporary yellow funnel which will later be replaced by a smaller one of brass. She is 51 feet long, with pointed stern, two cock pits, the forward one being slightly larger than that of the Frank Thomson. She has a Roberts boiler and a self-oiling engine, large coal lockers and a capacity for carrying 250 gallons of water. Her screw makes 50 more revolutions per minute than that of the Frank Thomson and her speed is guaranteed at 14 knots. An official trial to determine this will take place in the Easter recess...