Word: asteroidal
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...Talbot and Atropos" is an imaginative piece of astronomical knowledge applied to journalism. It has not enough suspense to hold the attention as a story, but it has enough science to hold the scientifically curious. What would happen if an asteroid should drop in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles east of Boston? The love element is an irritating non-essential; the suspense created as to "the great disaster" is killed almost at once by the idea of triviality caused by the thirty-minute conversation before the all-important question is asked and answered...
...which is raising a million-dollar fund for war relief. Besides naming a planet for a college, a vote is being taken to determine the name of what city another of Professor Metcalfe's planets will bear, while shares are being sold for the privilege of naming a third asteroid according to the wishes of the winner...
...colleges are concerned. A large part of the men are away during the examination period, and those who remain find nearly all their available funds swallowed up by June bills, but the number of votes cast in the contest to decide the name of the asteroid, which is at present being held in trust by the Bazaar, has been discouragingly small, the amount contributed at the end of the third day being under twenty dollars. In the three days, that remain before the money must be sent to New York, it does not seem to be imposing too great...
...glittering little asteroid given by Professor J. H. Metcalfe to the New York Allied Bazaar is still wandering nameless through the heavens. Its ruddy glow proclaims its lifelong wish to be called "Harvardiana" but unless the Cantabrigians uncork their purses during the next few days, there is danger that the poor planet may suffer under some less lucky cognomen. Votes will be on sale daily until Saturday at 10 cents each at the CRIMSON Building, 14-20 Plympton street. Plural voting is not only allowed, but encouraged...
...planet to be named was recently discovered by Professor Joel H. Metcalf, of Winchester, and presented to the Allied Bazaar, which opened Saturday in the Grand Central Palace, New York. The college contributing the greatest number of votes will give the asteroid its name. The committee in charge consists of Professor Henry Norris Russell, director of the Princeton Observatory, and Hamilton Fish Strong. Working in conjunction with them are the various college newspapers, which are running branch contests to decide whether the name of the new planet will be Harvardiana, Yalensis, Tiga, Columbiana, Cornellia, or Pennsylvania. Princeton was not selected...