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Whether it was black cats, walking under ladders, or a shattered mirror that jinxed the Crimson track forces at New Haven Saturday, or whether Jaakko's operatives were just having an off day will never be known. But in the most brilliantly contested Heptagonal meet since its inception five years ago, favored Harvard went down to defeat to Cornell by a slim half point...
...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...
...southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
Yerkes has the world's biggest refractor (a telescope equipped with a lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became...
Experts consider McDonald Observatory's mirror the finest piece of astronomical glass ever made. Because of the observatory's southern location, it will cover more sky than any other in the U. S.-all the sky except that relatively small part which lies within 30° of the south celestial pole. But it will not probe so far into space or catch such faint stars as Mt. Wilson's 100-incher; and Dr. Struve, candidly admitting these limitations last week, said that it would be used for those wide-vision purposes to which it is especially well...