Word: hammering
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...concert of Norwegian music, which was provided for by the gift of Mrs. E. C. Hammer, will be held in Sanders Theatre on February 16, at 8 o'clock. Dr. Schofield will lecture on Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" on the day before, in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
...concert is to be given in Sanders Theatre, probably on February 16, to arouse interest among the undergraduates in Scandinavian affairs. The expenses have been provided for by the recent gift of Mrs. Hammer, so the concert will be free to all. The music which will be rendered is written by Norwegian composers and will be both instrumental and vocal in character. Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Max Zach will give the instrumental music, and a number of Norwegian folk songs and ballads will be sung by Miss Aagot Lunde, a Norwegian singer...
...University has lately received from Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Boston, the sum of $500 "for the purchase of Scandinavian books or books relating to Scandinavia." As it is Mrs. Hammer's intention to present the same amount annually to the University for this purpose, there is good reason to believe that in time the Harvard Library will contain the best collection of Scandinavian books in America...
...Hammer makes this gift in memory of her husband, Mr. Emil C. Hammer, Danish Consul at the port of Boston from 1859 to 1894. Mr. Hammer in his lifetime was much interested in Harvard, and on various occasions presented books to the Library. It is therefore a very suitable memorial which his widow has now raised in his honor...
...rapidly rotated for five hours, the motion throwing the stones from one end of the cylinder to the other and subjecting them to both wear and impact. The relative toughness is determined on small fragments of the stones by subjecting them to constantly increasing blows from a spherical hammer until they split. The same machine with special appliances is used for testing the cementing value of stone. This is done by striking small quantities of pulverized rock lightly with a hammer until their cohesive power is destroyed. The machine makes a record of the energy and effect of each blow...