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...Pennsylvania, has encouraged laymen for the past few years to help astronomers observe meteor phenomena. Last week he asked them to time the flight of each shooting light, watch carefully to see where the meteors originated. Since some of Dr. Olivier's amateur helpers have reported a shower this year, astronomers know that the meteorites have not been pulled out of their usual path by another planet as they were in 1899. In this case, the next two years should have brilliant display...
...opportunity for amateurs to be of service to science will come late tomorrow evening or early Saturday or Sunday mornings, when the annual shower of Leonid meteors will be visible, it was stated yesterday by Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory...
...Leonid meteors, advance guards of a main swarm which appears three times a century, should be looked for in the eastern part of the sky. The shower may last three or four nights. Dr. Fisher stated, and pictures will be taken at the observatory to determine the speed of the meteors and whether they are pieces of a live or dead planet. On November 16, 1929 about ten Leonids were counted during three of the early morning hours...
...follow a student resident in one of the Houses through his day's routine. He wakes on the narrow iron bedstead of his private chamber in one of those delightful little suites, bathes under the shower in the bathroom which he shares with his roommate if the suite is double. He can dress besides an open fire in his study (though all the rooms are steam heated) and if the weather is stormy he can, by descending into the basement, walk to the dining hall from any room in the House without going out of doors. He may breakfast...
...application of lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead is turned on and a garden hose is used to play cold water from a nearby faucet, full force direct upon the naked body, the hose being held but a few feet from the girl. By testimony...