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...Lowell House Musical Society this year continues its delightful series of English operas with a presentation of Venus and Adonis by John Blow, next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the House dining-hall. To my mind the Society has done an impressive job during the past years in resurrecting the wonderful English operas--anyone who knows the beauty of these little operas will realize that it is only their peculiar hybrid form which has held them in relative obscurity. Somehow or other, grand opera as it grew up on the continent never clicked in England. Even after the Italian style...
Tickets are on sale at the Harvard and Radcliffe dining halls and the Coop for the Bellboys' annual opera, "Venus and Adonis." Prices range from $1.50 to $1 and $.50, and the performance is dated for March 11 and 12 in the Lowell Dining Room...
Astronomer Bart Jan Bok was born under Taurus and thinks nothing of it. But he is disturbed by the fast-growing number of U. S. citizens who look to Taurus, Gemini, Mercury and Venus, for solace and advice. This week he turned from his work at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory to report for the American Association of Scientific Workers on the status of astrology in the U. S. today. Astronomers generally hold it beneath their dignity to refute astrologers. But the time has come, Bok thinks, for scientists to attack the revival of a pernicious superstition...
...statue of Venus de Milo was tried for nudity in Mannheim, Germany, and sentenced to prison...
...biologically speaking, Venus appears much younger than Earth, then Mars appears much older. It is smaller and colder than Earth, has lost most of its atmosphere and water. But a thin atmosphere it still has, perhaps containing a little oxygen. And Mars has a little water, as the white polar caps show. These caps melt in the Martian summer, accumulate again in winter. The excitement over possible Martian inhabitants was started in the 19th Century by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli, who described hazy streaks on the surface, called them canali. This Italian word means "channels," was erroneously translated "canals," which...