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Still events pursue their inexorable path. It is remarkable that the week has passed off so successfully and no small honor is due to the members of the University and especially to their faithful friends. There was but one noticeable mistake to mar Class Day. That was the program of songs which the Glee Club offered in its concert on the steps of Widener. There are few who do not know by experience or by report the ability of the club. But to sing old or new classics before an audience particularly in the mood for a program...
...taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...first important attempt to verify either of these predictions was made in May of 1919 by the Greenwich Observatory of England, when it made an expedition to Peru, a country in the path of totality. Although observations were made in three places, the results were not entirely satisfactory, largely because the plates did not agree very accurately. It is perfectly obvious that many photographs may be taken, some showing a displacement of from zero seconds of are to three seconds, the average being the predicted displacement of 1.75 seconds of are;--but this proves nothing other than poor photography...
From within his "Paradiso" Dante once made Beatrice prophesy the advent of a ruler "who, below, shall be august; and who shall come to direct Italy upon the right path". The poet had formed the vision of an imperial figure who should restore the Holy Roman Empire, and bring all the factions of a disunited Italy under his sole command. This man was to come forth soon, and he had even been designated as Henry VII--then nominally the emperor. But Henry died an ignoble death, having accomplished less than nothing, and Dante was forced to postpone the date...
...officers, to teach team-work and coordination,-in fact, to accomplish what sports are everywhere intended to accomplish. Championship teams are very gratifying,-but they are incidental to the work of giving the entire units proficiency in horsemanship which cannot be obtained by riding in a straight and narrow path...