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...with other plates of the same region of the sky taken at earlier dates. In this way the appearance of any new object or the sudden brightening of a previously faint star is rendered conspicuous. The remarkable results that have already been obtained since Professor Bailey instituted the systematic search of the Harvard plates of the Milky Way region is another instance of the valuable policy of the Harvard Observatory in photographing the entire sky at short intervals. The collection of astronomical photographs now in the Photographic Library of the Observatory numbers over 250,000 glass plates and contains...
...advent of the elective system, students are apt to make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course in mathematics would conduce to accuracy, a course in philosophy to a power of detachment, a course on Shakespeare to an understanding of human nature--in short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life as they will...
...hardly hope to get an education from sixteen. Most of us are circling like a host of flies about one of the world's greatest centers of learning, barely touching here and there on the surface. Here at College we can gain a background through association and, if we search can find the culture which will mean so much in after life. As we rush madly from Sever to the bulletin at Leavitt's, let us sometimes recall that the diploma which we are striving one day to win will bear the inscription, Bachellor of Arts...
...story of "Barnum Was Right" centres about the activities of a motion picture company which goes to Egypt in search of local color meeting with a number of highly amusing and altogether unexpected adventures en route...
...reply to an article by Professor Lipman of the University of California entitled "Futile University Drives," which appeared recently in the New York Times, Chancellor Elmer E. Brown of New York University has appeared to-fend the cause of the universities in their search for endowment...