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Then followed some months of uneventful labor, the assembling of the organization which should handle the award, the determination of its exact conditions, the receipt of the aspiring plans (22,000 odd) their perusal by the jury of award, the announcement of the winning plan (its author remained unknown), the beginning of a great popular referendum...
...View. Armed only with a smoked glass, it is possible to see the disk of the sun gradually eclipsed by the moon. As more disappears, dusk comes on. Then it may be possible to see shadow bands playing across the land, a phenomenon the exact origin of which is not known. As the eclipse becomes almost complete, it may also be possible to see "Baily's beads." These are little spots of light coming through the valleys of the moon like strings of bright beads. This is as much as an observer in the region of partial eclipse can hope...
...main things that scientists hope to learn from lay observations are the exact borders of the totality belt and the times of the arriving of the total shadow and its departure, to the nearest second. These will help to improve knowledge as to the exact path of the moon...
...brief periods of total eclipses, there has probably been only about an hour made up of scattered minutes here and there, now and then, during which the corona has been under scientific examination. It is known to be connected with the phenomena of sunspots and electrical disturbances, but its exact nature is uncertain. The moon's course also will be closely examined to correct errors in present calculations; for, although the moon travels very regularly in a general way, it is slightly pulled aside this way and that by many diverse factors very hard to caculate. The effect of gravity...
Best of all, however, it appears that where the information is found it is not to be exact and comprehensive. With the large amount of checking up that there is to be done in the getting out of such a book the Student Council and its editor. Herman E. Wiener '20, have done a remarkably good piece of work. There is small ground for criticism and everyone concerned should feel that he has a part in a really big artiste and practical success. Perhaps in the future there will be sufficient funds to allow the preparation of additional pictures...