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...smaller cities, where only a few are gathered together to hear the results, things are not done on such an elaborate scale. The dummy gridiron and the dummy announcer are done away with and the ten or a dozen rooters cluster about the news ticker, most of them with the intention of watching for just a few minutes and then going home or back to the office. And they always wait for just one more play, shifting from one foot to the other, until the game is over...
...Shapley's studies of the famous star-cluster in Hercules known as "Messier 13" have proved that this cluster has a diameter of more than two and a half quadrillion miles, and contains probably more than fifty thousand stars, each of them intrinsically brighter than the sun. His researches have also played a large part in establishing the fact that the great star-clusters are found only at immense distances from the plane of the galaxy, or Milky Way, but appear to be falling into it. Dr. Shapley's hypothesis is that the Milky Way itself may be composed...
...Alumni Association becomes the host of the President and the Fellows of the University. At 2 o'clock a parade is formed in the Yard according to classes, of which there are usually about 60 represented. As the procession passes by University Hall each class is cheered by a cluster of undergraduates which always assembles there. After the parade, an open air meeting is held behind Sever Hall at which the President and several other prominent men including the Governor speak. This meeting is usually finished about 4 o'clock and the program is over...
...left last spring on leave of absence to supervise the excavations, returned recently and reports gratifying results. The work was carried on at two sites intermittently from the middle of April until August 21. The first site is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of columns, belonging, supposedly, to a temple erected by Herod the Great...
...excavations were carried on at two sites. The first is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of standing columns. These are commonly considered as belonging to a temple erected at Samaria by Herod the Great. There also was found great quantities of pottery, mostly Greek and Roman...