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...investigations, which will continue for weeks, are at present directed to find whether it will follow the course of such temporary stars, which burst into their full brilliancy almost immediately and gradually fade away -- lasting sometimes weeks and sometimes years. The Observatory's first trial shows its brightness to have greatly increased by Friday night over that announced by Dr. Anderson for the preceding evening until on Friday it was much brighter than the polar star. The exact position on three nights has been measured with the meridian circle and the spectrum has been founed by a photographic attachment...
...Tuesday evenings in February and March, Mr. Copeland will give one lecture and two readings. Subjects and dates follow...
...opposing answers may be possible. Again, a short story writer always asks his readers to take a great deal for granted, which if he were a novelist he might have to spend several chapters in explaining. For aesthetic effects also, it is necessary for the short story writer to follow a selective method, as Bert Harte does in his western stories. Finally, the short story gives the writer an opportunity to take advantage of impressions and to convey his thoughts in poetic symbolism...
...Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as his text the twenty-first verse of the second chapter of St. Peter's first epistle: Leaving us an example that we should follow His steps...
...needle, unchangingly to a pole where lies all power and influence are those who direct and guide the world. Jesus Christ by a standard of right above and beyond himself was able to point men to ideals and attainment, higher than their own and was able to make them follow Him towards them...