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In the first place, it was built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which...
The Business School is doing a great and noble work. Take some of the little known economic effects of the eclipse. They are too numerous to mention and will certainly not all wear away in this generation; but take just one: When the moon slithered across the face of the...
Truly, this is an amazing world. When in the starlit heaven the majesty of the sun comes and goes the great men of the earth step forth into the unnatural darkness and reveal themselves in their own true light. Coolidge the President, Coolidge the "strong silent man," of the White...
8.30 o'clock.--Sun will be half obscured with darkness approaching very speedily, much in the same manner as night approaches.
"Having found," Dr. Halley is reported as saying, "by comparing what had been formerly observed of solar eclipses, that the whole shadow would fall upon England, I thought it a very proper opportunity to get the dimension of the shade, ascertained by observation. And accordingly, I caused a small map...