Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere is very broad, as comparatively little original work has been done there. Harvard has had an observatory...
...number of the Graduates' Magazine, which appears today, opens with a sketch of the life of the late Roger Wolcott '70, by Bishop William Lawrence '71, accompanied by an unusually good photogravure portrait of the late Governor. The article is written exceedingly well, and has none of the stereotyped dryness which is too often found in such sketches. the author has told the story of Governor Wolcott's life from his early school-days, and portrays the personality of the man with a happy appreciation of his character. This cannot fail to impress every one who knew of him, especially...