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Transits of Mercury are a means of charting its queerly complicated orbit. The long axis of its elliptical orbit does not stay fixed, but slowly rotates, and the planet's point of nearest approach to the sun shifts each year. Calculations of classical Newtonian gravitation predict some shift, but not nearly so much as that actually observed. In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury. Leverrier called it "Vulcan." He looked long and hard for it. Once a doctor...
...delve any deeper into medieval Europe than History 1, a student must take Professor Taylor's Intellectual History plus four separate courses on England, France, Italy, and Germany. Professor Taylor not only admits this, but also protests that his students of medieval France, in answering the Divisional Exam questions, approach the general field of medieval Europe through France alone. They have no time to specialize in more than one country, and therefore have no basis for comparison...
...heading south to the airport, he should have heard the cheeping dot-dash of the "A" until he picked up the steady hum of the course in his earphones. Oldtimer that he was, he would never have run across the course into the "N" zone (dash-dot) that marked approach to the mountains and disaster. But if the beam failed just as he made his turn, all he would have heard was the "A" signal. He would have heard it, probably did hear it, until the crashing...
...Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
Here at Harvard the Student Defense League and the Faculty Committee on Military Training are attacking the problem from a different approach. They propose, in addition to purely technical courses, a program of training in defense subjects to aid the draftees. This program has met with comparative apathy from the students and from the Army and Naval officials. It is in effect an attempted compromise between complete gearing of college to training and the complete divorce of college from training...