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...should they suffer the same penalty as those who through sheer neglect of work or lack of intelligence have failed to get their two C's and a D? I think not. Why not make the punishment fit the crime and forbid any cutting among the offenders? HENRY W. ABBOT...
...unusual amount of interest has been displayed by those who are competing for the musical honors of the play. J. H. Ricketson '25 and L. J. Abbot '24 have each written pieces of exceptional quality. It is hoped that Joseph Alger '22 and Howard Eliot '22 will add variety to the numbers by contributing some of their music...
...Charles Greeley Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution who last Spring made scientific history with his measurements of the sun's heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which...
...strike has been arbitrated, Dr. Abbot now reports. The four per cent, diminution noted since last year has returned to normalcy, and more sun spots are now appearing. A new cycle of spots is beginning in the solar latitudes farthest from the sun's equator, according to observations by Professor G. H. Peters, of the U. S. Naval Observatory. The number and size of spots will gradually increase for about eleven years, until a maximum is reached, when they will again fall off. Electrical disturbances are commonly associated with sun spot increase...
...Abbot and all the Government meteorologists have foresworn longrange weather predictions. The maximum they can risk their reputations on is 48 hours. They will not commit themselves as to the coming season, but many an amateur weather prophet is predicting a long, hard Winter...