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...Leavitt's and at Sanborn's for those who desire to attend the dual games at New Haven Saturday. If fifty men sign, the price of round trip tickets will be $5.60; if one hundred sign, $4.55; if one hundred and fifty sign, $4.20. The train leaves South station at 8 o'clock, and on return leaves New Haven at 6.55. A section of seats at the games will be reserved for Harvard men. It is hoped that at-least two hundred men will go. The books must be signed today...
...candidates for the track team resumed training in the Gymnasium yesterday after a two weeks rest. After exercising half an hour with the pulley-weights and dumb-bells, the runners ran to Porter's Station while the men trying for the field events received instructions from Mr. Graham in the Gymnasium. The men are now expected to get themselves into good condition as quickly as possible. Work in the Gymnasium, varied by long walks or runs, will be continued until the track on Soldiers Field can be used...
...Harvard meteorological stations in Peru have been closed, as a result of an order to cease operations, which went into effect on January 1. These stations, six in number, have been for the past eight years the basis of operations for the determination of the hitherto unknown weather conditions in the vicinity of the Andes Mountains. With the new data obtained, a comprehensive and accurate estimate may be now made of the climates of the world. As much as was portable of the apparatus has been carried to the branch observatory at Arequipa, near by, where some meteorological work will...
...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...
...subject matter in the January number of the Illustrated Magazine is more within its proper sphere than has formerly been the case. The description, with illustrations, of "The South American Station of the Harvard College Observatory," is a very interesting article and suggests the field of work that the Illustrated can most successfully fill as one of the College magazines. The issue contains one poem that might well have been left in the hands of one of the other two periodicals that deal with such. Other articles are "Holworthy Hall," "Harvard Life One Hundred Years Ago," "A Morning...