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Harvard holds a position in this country similar to that of Kiel in Europe. The routine work done here, on a scale impossible at smaller stations, has been the chief cause of the reputation which the Harvard Observatory has won. Especially well-known is the practice of photographing the heavens to secure a permanent and comprehensive record of star-movements. The number of photographs which have so far been secured with the various telescopes is as follows: Eleven inch Draper, 12,872; eight inch Draper, 25,- 890; thirteen inch Boyden, 10,214; eight inch Bache, 26,339; twenty-four inch...
...advantages which would be secured by the proposed co-operation are many. It is very much to be desired that all such variables should be observed in the same way, so that all may be reduced to a uniform scale of magnitudes. Observations on all the stars cannot be made to advantage at one station, but it is desirable that the records should be compiled in unified form. Moreover, many observers might in this way be secured who would not undertake independent work, whether from inexperience or lack of incentive...
...with bright variables, which may be investigated with the naked eye or with only a small glass, photographic enlargements have been made of portions of the Bonn Durch-musterung charts. A region three degrees square, surrounding each variable, has been three times enlarged, giving a map on the standard scale of one minute of arc to the millimetre. On these enlargements the designations of the stars in sequence have been marked. Copies will be furnished to observers at cost, or free of expense to persons of experience who are ready to co-operate in the work. Complete charts with...
...rowing room in the Gymnasium is now being fitted up with several inomotors of different varieties, and will be open for use by the last of next week. A racing course, marked out on a proportionate scale of two miles will be laid out in the centre of the room; and in order to render it fit for racing, ridged, alleys will be constructed along its entire length. Aside from racing, it will also be possible for men to know the exact amount of work which they are doing in given time...
...grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class. Henry C. Adams, Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is working toward dividing their scale of wages far more accurately into a large number of classes. But even here the inherent difficulties of the problem are increased by the innovation of paying employees "by the run" instead of by the time...