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Among the colleges which will be represented are Yale, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, Mount, Holyoke, Dartmouth, and Williams. Students from Princeton, the University of Chicago, and Vassar will act the role of observers...
...first, in a tiny shack among the olives, he worked with a four-inch telescope which had belonged to the College since 1860. In 1895 they bought him a second-hand eight-inch telescope and, because there was not enough money for a scientific mounting, Father Ricard called upon his students to help him improvise a mount. Day by day for years the tall figure in the black gown scanned the sky. Chiefly he trained his poor instrument...
...horrible confession, that. And one--which even a hardened offender like the Vagabond would scarcely mention in private did his conscious not bind him to expose the false teachings of a nefarious publication. In its day this Mount Auburn Street magazine has caused many a scandal for one reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
...succeeding so well in making small quartz mirrors for telescopes that last week he reaffirmed his promise of delivering a 200-inch mirror to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) in two or three years. It will be twice as wide and six or eight times as heavy as the Mount Wilson glass mirror (world's largest) of the Carnegie Institution. It will reflect four times as much light and probe eight times as far into space. Consequently, with it astronomers will be able to infer many new things about the structure of the universe, the composition of stars, whether...
...such vast mirrors glass shrinks or expands with every little change in temperature. Such distortion has bothered the Mount Wilson observers. With quartz, however, great temperature changes are necessary to cause distortion. Dr. Thomson developed the method of fusing clean sand in the electric furnace...