Word: transition
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...races in New Haven harbor. They will probably occur May 30. The main arguments urged in favor of the harbor were saving in expenses of taking boats to and from the boat-house to the lake, and that the boats were liable to be damaged while in transit. The harbor being more convenient of access than the lake, attendance of spectators is likely to be largely increased...
Fortunately the tower of our new law building, on which is to be our observatory, was open on Dec. 6th, when Venus took her skip across the sun's face. The winding staircases leading to the top were crowded all day long with students desirous of observing the transit through Prof. Lee's equatorial refractor. Your correspondent ruined his constitution by a climb along with the rest of the eager star-gazers. He was exceedingly disappointed with his observations and obtained about as much satisfaction as he would had he gazed through a sheet of smoked...
Prof. Young of Princeton expresses great satisfaction over the result of his observations of the transit of Venus, and thinks he has obtained them very accurately. He took nearly two-hundred photographs...
...American observations of the transit of Venus at Santiago were very successful. All the contacts were observed, and the photographs and measurements taken were alike successful...
While the topic is yet fresh it may fitly be remarked that this is not the first occasion on which Harvard College has been creditably identified with a general observation of the transit of Venus. On the occasion of the transit of 1874 the phenomenon was not visible here, but in respect to the previous transit in 1769, and so to speak, its companion of 1761, Harvard has an honorable record. The college had no observatory then and but a meagre supply of instruments, but what were at command did good service. There was no observatory in this country...