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Professor Solon I. Bailey '88 of the College Observatory will sail today from New York for Peru to take charge of the University astronomical station at Arequipa. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Bailey and by Miss Annie J. Cannon of the Observatory staff...
...work of the Arequipa station, which has been somewhat reduced in scope in recent years, is expected to take on a new importance with the return of Professor Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...
...Almost over night the Army and Navy found themselves supplied with thousands of the finest type of young man the country affords, skilled not only in radio operating but entirely familiar with the complex apparatus. To a man they had built several of everything to do with a radio station, and although the military aparatus was larger and more powerful and more perfectly built, the principles were identical and far from strange. It was a splendid record, and one which our citizens generally should keep in mind in years to come...
...number of stations at present listening is unknown, but those in a position to judge estimate it is numbering well over 200,000. The writer recently delivered an address from the Newark, N. J. station of the Westing house Company and it was estimated that he spoke to an audience of at least twenty five thousand persons. The thing has so gotten hold of the lay public, who never would learn the dot and dash code of telegraphy, that at the present time it is almost impossible to buy a receiving set. The demand for them will be met, however...
...visiting squad of 12 men will arrive at 10.30 at the North Station and will lunch at the training tables in Smith Halls...