Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past two years, Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been perfecting a battery for electrical discharges. It is now the most powerful apparatus of its kind in the world, and has already been used in several investigations of the x-ray. It is the only battery strong enough to send a discharge through an x-ray tube; all other batteries send the spark around the tube. It has been used repeatedly to show the skeleton of the hand. An idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage...
...first magnitude. In all, forty or fifty meteors were counted, which were small, with few exceptions. Bright meteors were scarce, and their trails short for the most part. The immediate results of the observations were not specially prominent, but as this was the first organized work of the kind in recent years, as much was accomplished as could have been expected...
...deed, and the 'Varsity management may be relied upon to show them every attention which will not prove burdensome. With those, however, who come up from New Haven to see the game, and to visit their friends, the case is different. Harvard can hardly do enough toward returning in kind the cordial hospitality with which Harvard men were received last June at the baseball game in New Haven...
Tomorrow evening at seven o'clock, in Holden Chapel, there will be a meeting which is probably the first of its kind in the history of the University. It is a union meeting of the religious societies. The aim of the religious societies in thus joining together is to present more clearly to the students that the purpose of all these societies is the same, namely, to make more real the individual religious life of Harvard men. It is planned to hold these union services about once a month during the college year. At each meeting an address will...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard club held its second shoot of the season. It was not a success. Only a few men were out, and the individual scores were poor, not more than half the birds being hit. The chances for any kind of a team to shoot Pennsylvania look very doubtful and unless more interest is shown the match will have to be cancelled. The Founders Cup will be shot for next Thursday...