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Harvard has made great preparations to observe the total eclipse of the sun on Jan. 1. 1889, and for that purpose has already sent a great deal of apparatus to California. The eclipse will be visible no further east than New York state, and there only at sunset, but the line of the centre of the eclipse will pass just to the north of San Francisco...
...skeleton was about six feet from the group. Under the skull was a number of beads and wampum strings. The skeletons were not more than twelve or fourteen inches under ground. Nearly all were lying on the right side, with knees drawn up to the chin, and facing the east. The soil in which they lay was of a sandy character and not especially adapted to the preservation of the bodies...
...cannot fail to be instructive as Professor Toy is one of the men in this country most able to deal with his question. The subject itself, also, is particularly attractive, calling, as it does, for a discussion of the spirit of the nineteenth century in its effects upon the East...
...town called William, in the Sacremento Valley. Under favorable circumstances this eclipse will be visible over a strip of country one hundred and twenty miles long; it will also be visible as a sunset phenomenon in Canada near Lake Superior, and as a partial eclipse as far east as New York. Owing to the wide range of country from which the eclipse is visible an excellent chance is offered to solve various problems concerning the sun's course and the amount and intensity of the light emitted under the given conditions...
...recent catalogue of the university, and several pamphlets containing information about Yale will be enclosed a in tin box and placed in a cavity cut in the top of the stone. East Divinity Hall is the only other building on the campus which has any similar material in its corner-stone. This stone contains documents relating to the illogical Seminary...