Word: east
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corona of 1889 strongly resembling those of 1868 and 1878. The most important observations made at the eclipses of the dates just mentioned were obtained by the United States naval observatory. Its photographs and those of the Harvard expedition in January show an appearance of the corona to the east of the sun, much like that of a wedge, its sides extending far out in wavy lines; on the other side of the sun the coroan appears much brighter, and, from its cleft shape, bears a strong resemblance to the tail of a fish...
...chosen for the building is at the southwest corner of the quadrangle, where the ground slopes rapidly to the south and to the west, thereby offering advantages which the architect has not failed to make use of. Thus the reading-room, which is entered from the grounds on the east side, is on a level with the fourth floor of the west stack-room, which has seven stacks each seven feet high; the delivery desk being then at the vertical middle of the stack. The stack is practically one of four stories...
...scholarship fund of $2,500, from a bequest of Charles T. Read, has been received at Amherst, to be given to ministerial students recommended by the Hampshire East Association...
...highest praise of Dr. Bradford P. Raymond, who has formally accepted the presidency of Wesleyan, and will enter upon his new duties at the beginning of the next college year. It says: "The new president is a leader among Western Methodists and is not wholly unknown in the east. He is about 40 years old and for several years has been president of Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis. Those who know Dr. Raymond best have given him the warmest endorsement. Personally he is said to be a man whom student and faculty 'tie up to,' genial, sympathetic, generous and able...
...reception by the Alumni Reaching St. Louis on Friday, the last concert of the tour will be given there on Saturday evening at Entertainment Hall, preceded by a reception on Friday evening at the house of G. H. Capen, '90. The clubs will leave Sunday evening for the east, arriving in New York on Tuesday morning, January 8. Both the Harvard and the Yale Clubs will sing at Chicago and St. Louis. As this will give a good opportunity of comparing the clubs it will probably cause much rivalry between the clubs as well as between the alumni associations which...