Word: working
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...sent the first astronomical expedition, with Mr. W. H. Pickering in charge of it, will be sent to join the first. They will leave on the 20th of this mouth, travelling by way of Panma, and reaching Arequipa, near which is the observatory, about the last of January. The work will be an extension of the work done here on the Southern stars. Peru is sufficiently far south to get a comprehensive view of the southern stars, and, moreover, being a country with little rain, has a very clear atmosphere. Two new instruments will be carried down, one to photograph...
...article to addresses furnished by the University. This is, however, but a start toward the circulation which the article ought to receive, and the association will be glad to send out a larger number if funds for printing and mailing are provided. Here is opportunity to do effective work for the University that should appeal to those students and instructors who are able to contribute $10, or $5, or less. Any student might contribute to send a definite number of copies of the article to the Harvard club nearest his home. Contributions might also be made to supply Harvard...
...older men who had got all their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that they had proven the sport to be worthy of the best efforts of gentlemen. But, he added "one swallow does not make a summer," and he hoped that the hard work and enthusiasm which had won the victory were but an example to urge future generations of students to earn success by the same means...
...which they entertained our eleven can hardly be told too strongly. It is not a little flattering and encouraging to young men to be congratulated so heartily by men of whom not a few have grown old in reputation for more substantial than athletic reputation. The encouragement to hard work and unflinching purpose, as well as the assurance from such a source, that the cause in which their efforts are expended neither is nor ought to be despised by the best men in the country, will not fail to strengthen the proper spirit of athletics in our college...
...Japanese Army. One would hardly believe that the author of this matter-of-fact description of military maneuvers in Japan could have written the "Wind of Destiny" and "Passe-Rose." But Mr. Hardy was a soldier himself once, while calculations of the velocity of Japanese riffles must be easy work to the Dartmouth professor of mathematics...