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...peculiar thing about this discovery is that the star which Miss Woods found is now invisible. It first appeared in April, 1917, attained its maximum brilliance of 6.5 magnitude on April 25 of that year, fluctuated in brightness until August, and later disappeared. It was discovered in the comparison of old and new photographic plates, a process regularly pursued at the Observatory for the sake of recording changes in the heavens. Usually discoveries are made on new plates. This time, when the new plate was superimposed on the old it was found that a star recorded on the old plate...
With two straight victories to their credit the University hockey team will meet the sextet from Dartmouth College this evening at the Pavilion. The game will be called promptly at 8.15. If past performances are any means of comparison the contest tonight is due to be a struggle which will rival the last Yale game in speed and closeness. Neither team is undefeated, and both have shown brilliant play in their early matches...
...present there are still greater dangers in applying the epithet "parlor bolshevist" to anyone who dares assert an independent opinion. If this nation and the whole world do not watch their step carefully, the next decade will usher in a period of suppression on such a scale that in comparison the age of Metternich will appear as a mad whirl of anarchy...
...earned the magna cum laude against 4.3 per cent. of the private school students; and that 2.5 per cent. of the public school scholars won the rare distinction of the summa cum laude. while only .5 per cent. of the men from the private schools achieved it. Also the comparison showed that the public school boys had a considerable smaller percentage of admonitions, probations and other disciplinary penalties...
...records of unclassified students show similar per cents. The examination this year was made on a somewhat different basis from that in 1916, which prevents comparison of the figures concerning bodily mechanics...