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Education: "In addition to the modern grade and high schools, a technical school has been opened at Haifa; and the entire system is about to be crowned with the Hebrew University* on Mount Skopos, near the Mount of Olives...
...other half of the prize was given tr. Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mount Wilson Observatory for measurement of the distance to two remote spiral nebulae in Andromeda and Triangulum. He found in these nebulae numbers of variable stars. Measurement of the brightness of these stars established that they were 4,000 to 8,000 times as bright as the sun. From this date, he calculated the distance from the earth to those stars as 930,000 light years,* or about five and a half quintillion (5,500,000,000,000,000,000) miles. As compared to the belief of only...
...Univ. of Wash. 5,450 Oklahoma 3,882 Fordham 5,433 Kansas 3,838 Cornell 5,232 Missouri 3,660 Univ. of Iowa.. 5,227 The five largest colleges exclusively for women are: Smith, 2,023; Wellesley, 1,583; Vassar, 1,150; Goucher, 1,042 and Mount Holyoke...
...quite a Kreisler fan, as you no doubt have already surmised, and I would appreciate it very much if you would favor me with a good press proof of this cut or any other sort of a reproduction that I may mount and frame...
...connecting link between the old Yard and the "New Yard", the Planning Board feels that Holyoke Street should be widened into an avenue. The large ten-story hotel on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets would make any such alteration impossible. The hotel is also out of keeping with the Board's plans for the retention of the Mount Auburn Street district as a club section, an informal, but intrinsic segment of their proposals. Undergraduate feeling against Mr. Wyner's project is based largely on this second reason