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...Observatory for the sake of recording changes in the heavens. Usually discoveries are made on new plates. This time, when the new plate was superimposed on the old it was found that a star recorded on the old plate did not appear on the new. A thorough subsequent search of other plates brought out the fact that it was a nova which had flourished in 1917 and had not been found at that time at any astronomical observatory...
...done to awaken interest in this course and to insure its continuation in subsequent years with even greater emphasis on contemporary problems. And nothing should be neglected which would help to make it broad in its scope and absolutely non-partisan in its nature. Only by a courageous search for truth, by discounting all propaganda, can the course be of lasting value...
...impossible and a confidence that was streaked with fanaticism? Is it these men, the men of the A. E. F., or is it their returned shades, clamoring for less and ever less work, for more, and ever more pay, disgruntled, unpoised, conning the latest ism of the day in search of conditions which they would hate if they could achieve them? It is possible that the average Americans of the summer campaign of 1918 are the average Americans of the strike season...
...systematic search for new stars begun several years ago at the University Observatory is being continued with most gratifying results under the direction of Professor S. I. Bailey '88. During the period that the search has been carried on 18 new stars have been discovered, and at present a photographic study of the milky way is being made...
...shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate the case; a schoolboy sometimes doesn't know any better...