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Amazing discoveries to the layman were those announced yesterday by the University observatory at Arequipa, Peru The measurements of the Magellanic cloud show it to be a separate galaxy from ours, with an entirely new system of stars to be explored. With the comforting assurance of the existence of two galaxies of stars, we can consider these to be an indefinite number: and the Milky Way, our own galaxy, on the edge of which we occupy a rustic backwoods position is nothing more than a trifling part of the Universe. After all, the Milky Way is a finite body...
...dizziness in reading the figures. In mathematics and philosophy "infinity" is referred to so often and so casually that it becomes a commonplace. And infinity is far more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving...
...steadily growing cloud is rising from the university horizon, a cloud of literature, circulars and pamphlets pouring from the university extensions and upstart correspondence schools of what-not, and threatening to shadow the whole sky. The farmhand can learn to play the piccolo in ten lessons, the mayor can learn public accounting by mail. An education dropped through a slit in the door! The universities are hardly of any use now. A few years and they will be cut off from the light altogether...
...these crabbed times of Turkish turmoil Republican uneasiness, and undergraduate suspense we are not unlike that idolatrous generation which seeketh a sign. How much better would it have been for the contemporaries of Noah had they perceived upon the horizon the true character of the little cloud, which, the chronicler states, was as small as a man's hand...
...followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked "Good Any Time...