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...erect a seismograph in the University Museum. A Bash-Omori seismograph with two 100 kilogram conical pendulums, one swung in the meridian and the other east and west, will shortly be placed on a suitable foundation in the basement of the Geological section. This type of instrument records earth vibrations on smoked paper carried on revolving drums operated by clockwork. One of the same general type which has been set up in the State Museum at Albany, New York, for more than a year, on a clay foundation like that underlying the Harvard station, gave complete records...
...fourteenth Vesper service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. Charles E. Park will conduct the service, and the following musical numbers will be rendered: "Sanctus," Gounod; Aria from Oratorio, "Prodigal Son," Sullivan; "God that Maketh Earth and Heaven," Naylor. The soloist will be Dr. D. C. Greene...
Preliminary to the study of books, Mr. Washington emphasized the importance of bringing the negro down to earth by manual labor. As a result of education the ideas of the negro have greatly changed. Instead of regarding manual labor as degrading, the educated negro now considers it distinctly honorable. There is a great difference between working and being worked--the one means civilization, the other servitude. The same is true with reference to the race as to the individual. Any race which is uneducated is apt to yield to the temptation of going from one extreme to another. The Anglo...
...third free public lecture in the University Museum course will be given tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum by Professor W. M. Davis '69, whose subject will be "Why the Earth is Believed to be Millions of Years Old." The lecture will be in part explanatory of certain exhibits, included in the New Geological Exhibition Room, now in process of arrangement, and will attempt to make clear why the geological history of the earth is divided into various ages and periods, each of which is of untold duration. Photographic projections will...
...LECTURE. "Why the Earth is believed to be Millions of Years Old." (Illustrated.) Professor Davis. Geological Lecture Room...