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...approaching completion of the new Bruce photographic telescope was referred to at length by Professor Pickering. If successful, it will be the most powerful in the world. The eight surfaces of its objective have been ground and polished so that it could be tested on a star. The results were satisfactory. Plans have been made and the foundations laid for a one-story brick building, with a sliding roof, in which it will be erected during its trial in Cambridge. After this it is proposed to send it to the Arequipa station in Peru...
...recent meeting of the Chicago Harvard Club, Prof. Putnam of Harvard, chief of the department of archaeology at the World's Fair, after describing at length the exhibit which was to be made in his department, remarked that after the fair, the collection which would be by far the most complete of its kind ever made would be left in the hands of the World's Fair board, and that he strongly hoped some effort would be made to secure it as the nucleus of a museum of archaeology and ethnology in Chicago. It is evident that there...
Yale couldn't gain at first, but suddenly Hall started off round Brewer's end, and was only brought down when Brewer made the best tackle of the day. Twenty-five yards was the length of the run. DeWitt and Armstrong made short gains, and then DeWitt was given a big hole between Shea and Foster, and dodging Brewer got 25 yards to the 1 yard line before he was downed. On the next play he was pushed over the line, and then Hall kicked the goal by about a foot and tied the score...
...campus of the Leland Stanford University of Palo Alto, Cal.. covers about 70 000 acres. It contains a drive-way seventeen +++ in length...
About twenty-five players witnessed the exhibition of blindfold chess at the Chess Club rooms on Tuesday night. Mr. Pillsbury extended his usual limit and played eight simultaneous games instead of six. The additional length of the contest, as well as the difficulty of keeping so many positions in mind, was a severe strain on the blindfold player, and the Harvard players succeeded in making an even score. Mr. Pillsbury won from Ballou, Van Kleeck, and Spaulding, lost to MacKaye, Hewins, and a consultation table played by Dunn, Farrar, Lewis, and Starr, while games with Wilson and Webster were given...