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...Broken Mirror," last of a series of stories of Mme. Saumon's pension on Eliot street, is too obvious in plot and only near-English in style. The tone suggested by the first line, "Dulling their background like two pearls in a cabbage patch," is fortunately not maintained throughout. A sketch, Mr. Skinner's Indian tale "The Love of a Friend," is simple and good. Perhaps the Apache saying which heads it--"Any man can slay an enemy, but only an Apache is brave enough to kill a friend"--anticipates too much the conclusion...
...Chicago, where he stayed until 1904. Since January 1, 1909, he has been in charge of the construction of the 100-inch reflecting telescope at the Carnegie Solar Observatory, which is on the top of Mt. Wilson, 6.00 feet above the sea. He cast the famous 60-inch telescopic mirror at the observatory, which is the largest of its kind in the world. Many of the photographs which will be shown this evening were taken with the aid of this mirror...
...great sixty-inch mirror of the observatory is the work of Professor Ritchey, and the lecture will be illustrated by the most recent and remarkable photographs taken with that instrument...
...speak for the students' Harvard. One incongruity that has crept in of late years might well be abolished--namely, the practice of having books and the other college publications reviewed by members of the Faculty instead of by the students themselves. If the paper is to be a mirror of undergraduate opinions, it must not make an exception of the department of literary criticism...
...object are reflected up through the open air and carried through a tube in the outer wall of the observing room to the eye-piece. Light from an object under observation undergoes three reflections before it reaches the observer. It is first received by the 60-inch mirror at the bottom of the tube, which throws it up to a second small mirror mounted centrally within and near the end of the tube. The second mirror returns the light down the tube to a third mirror, and by this it is reflected through the air to the eye-piece...