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...Lionel Bryer, research fellow in Dental Science from Bloemfontein, South Africa, has been named "most valuable player of the year" by the executive board of the Rugby Club. The "most conscientious" award was shared by Mizra T. A. Baig '57, Terence S. Turner '57, and Arthur W. Ticknor...
...University will probably retain its Boyden Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa, but only in partnership with other leading world observatories, it was learned yesterday...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 led the committee making the changes. The astronomers agreed that the Bloemfontein observatory had over-extended its facilities and expenditures and that all necessary improvements would be too costly...
...Slipher's visit to the Lamont-Hussey Observatory at Bloemfontein was a kind of dress rehearsal for September 1956, when Mars will come closer (only 35 million miles away) than at any time between 1941 and 1971. This year it came fairly close, but it was too low in the southern sky to permit the great telescopes of the Northern Hemisphere to observe it effectively. Since there are few observatories in the Southern Hemisphere, most of the world's Mars-watchers are waiting impatiently...
...issue of January 18, 1935. The apes, however, made the Bulletin cover twice: once on December 22, 1933 ("The Apes in Animal Sociology"), and again on May 27, 1938 ("The Living Asiatic Apes"). In addition, other esoteric cover articles of the Merrill period featured "The Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa," "'Malaysia.' Its Governments and Physical Beauty," "Collecting Fossil Insects," and "A Way to Control the Gypsy Moth...