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Professor Child specially distinguished himself as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and early English literature, and ranked foremost in the knowledge of songs and ballads. By his works he has done more to save to us the old songs and ballads of England and Scotland from oblivion than any other...
In 1857-59 Professor Child published his first edition of "English and Scottish Ballads," the greatest work of that description that had appeared up to that time; but afterwards he edited a new edition entitled "English and Scottish Popular Ballads," and this work has gained worldwide renown for its author...
Three methods are used here to ascertain the variability of a star. The first, and most commonly used, by means of its spectrum, was invented here. There is at the Observatory a collection of about 100,000 photographic plates of different parts of the heavens, made during the last eight...
The collection of photographic plates at this observatory is the largest in the country, the glass alone weighing ten tons. With these improved methods more variable stars are found here than at any other place.
Other entertaining stories are "For Unknown Reasons," by A. S. Pier '95; "On the Way to Sweet Auburn," by Townsend Walsh '95; "The Sleeping Car," Willis Munro '95; "The Restoration of the Pipes," H. H. Chamberlin '95; "Little Sister," Louis How '95; "God, Man and the Devil," L. W. Mott...