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...effort to determine the effect of solar disturbances upon the electrical conditions of the earth's atmosphere in relation to radio receptivity and weather changes, the Astronomical Laboratory is cooperating with the Naval Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, and the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The phenomena known as sun-spots, or violent gaseous convulsions on the surface of the sun, have been proved to affect radio transmission, seasonal changes, and to be a direct cause of the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights...
Foundations. The site of the cathedral is Washington's highest point, Mount Saint Albans, a thickly wooded hill 400 feet above the Potomac and northwest of the city. Here already functions some appanages of the cathedral Mount Saint Albans National Cathedral School for Boys, National Cathedral School for Girls, a wing of the library, (containing 20,000 books), the college of preachers (for which last week's contributions will build a permanent home). Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors...
...Mount Dora...
Annapolis '81. One plot in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va., is set aside for members of the Class of 1881 of the U. S. Naval Academy. This plot was dug open last week to receive a casket from Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, containing the body of onetime (1921-25) U. S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks, who died July 12, 1926. Chief of Chaplains of the Army John T. Axton (see p. 11) read the committal service...
...Manter Hall Tutoring School will occupy its new quarters on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets on October 15, if the present plans for construction are carried out. The new building is architecturally in harmony with the structures recently built by the University...