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...work on Soldiers Field will not be begun until April. The postponement of the improvements for another month has seemed best because by that time the frost will be out of the ground and it will then be possible to ascertain with more accuracy the cause of the bad drainage...
...order to ascertain the sentiment of the undergraduates with regard to the disposition of East College, the Daily Princetonian has decided to take a vote on the question. The new library now in process of construction necessitates either the destruction of the building or its removal to another location. A great deal of discussion has been evoked by the problem among the alumni and a diversity of opinion expressed...
...graduates everywhere desire that the club should visit them, and the undergraduates, so far as I have been able to ascertain their sentiments, are unanimously in favor of the trip. It is to be hoped that the Faculty will not totally ignore their wishes in the matter...
Three methods are used here to ascertain the variability of a star. The first, and most commonly used, by means of its spectrum, was invented here. There is at the Observatory a collection of about 100,000 photographic plates of different parts of the heavens, made during the last eight years at this Observatory and at the branch observatory in Peru. When a star is suspected of variability a photograph of it is taken and compared with others of this collection and by this means a complete history of the star during the last eight years is established...
...proportion which the rest of the universe bears to this planet. This makes many believe that God would not deign to notice our little earth. That the earth is small is no proof that God could not work wonders in it. As far as we have been able to ascertain by astronomical knowledge none of the other planets are or ever will be inhabited. Nothing has hitherto been adduced to show that the Christian faith is wrong. Astronomy never has and never will show us anything which conflicts with the truths of religion...