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...measuring of the brightness of the stars has occupied a large part of the time of the Observatory for thirty years. In this time, more than two million measurements were made of some 80,000 stars. In carrying on this work, a stations has been maintained in the southern hemisphere, at Arequipa, Peru, and the stars in that portion of the heavens have been observed by the same system as that used here in the northern hemisphere. As a result of the work of these two stations, a scale of magnitudes has now been established and accepted by international consent...
...yard hurdles.--F. W. Kelly, University of Southern California...
...northern division of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Bowdoin, will hold the preliminary match in the Hemenway Gymnasium on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, March 21. About the same time, the southern division will hold its preliminary round and two weeks later the intercollegiate finals will be held in New York. There are four colleges represented in each of the two divisions, and after the elimination of one college from each, there will be six teams to compete for the championship...
...this space for an inscription of fifty-on letters. The exact inscription has not yet been determined upon but the authorship will probably fall to President Eliot, who has written many of the most notable and striking inscriptions of the time. There will be a similar space on the southern end of the building which is also to bear some legend...
...interior, the fireproofing has already been begun on the ground floor of the eastern building. This work is in charge of Roebling & Company of Philadelphia. The installation of the metal window-frames has commenced and the steel bookstacks, which on the southern half alone will have a capacity of about one and three-quarters millions of books, are nearing completion. 'For heat, the building will be dependent on outside sources, doing away with the dangers of a furnace and boilers in the cellar. A concrete tunnel has been built from Sever around the front of the library to permit...