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...astronomical station of the Harvard Observatory, equipped with two photographic telescopes, has just been installed on the edge of the nitrate desert of Northern Chile to test the atmospheric conditions in that locality, and to watch and photograph the southern stars that cannot be studied at the existing stations of the Observatory located at Cambridge, at Mandeville, Jamaica, and at Arequipa, Peru...
...more than thirty years the University has maintained a southern station in order that its series of celestial photographs might cover the whole sky. After the investigation of 1889 of various sites in Peru and Chile, the branch observatory was located in the Andes Mountains near Arequipa, at an altitude of eight thousand feet. Throughout a large part of the year the astronomical conditions in this high altitude are excellent, and the astronomers working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March...
...Harvard Observatory has been located at Chuquicamata, Chile, about twenty miles from the Smithsonian station, and at an altitude of between seven and eight thousand feet. The region is practically rainless, and the available records indicate long seasons of cloudless skies...
...entrance on the corner of Dunster street and Massachusetts avenue. This proposal is vigorously opposed by Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04 of Cambridge, himself a member of the committee which will decide the matter. Mr. Blanchard is sponsor for the less expensive alternative of reducing the size of the station...
...revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...