Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second of a series of "Open Nights" at the Harvard College Observatory, 60 Garden St., will be held tonight at 7.45 o'clock under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club. A short lecture, entitled "The Stars", will be given by Dr. Annie J. Cannon. This will be followed by telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the observatory will also be explained. Tickets of admission may be had upon application at the observatory...
...Monday evening Dr. A. J. Cannon will continue the series with a lecture on "The Stars." Miss H. B. Sawyer, speaking next Thursday, will have "The Planets" as her topic; while as the conclusion of the "Open Nights," on April 30, C. B. Andrews '25 will discuss...
...glorify, who twists and turns on a rope; and Goliath, the sea elephant, who has gained exactly one ton since last seen by his adoring public. This year there are many new acts, not the least astounding of which is that in which a man is shot from a cannon into a net more than 200 ft. away. He is Ugo Zacchini. He and his brother served in the Italian artillery during the War. They wondered then whether a man could be hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north...
...look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part of me. But all of me. I would rather-far rather-look at a Zig- strange as it may seem, than at the Holy Man on the front cover of your issue of Dec. 24.* . . . Your "Prohibitor Cannon" is by no means a big gun. In a real nation such as France, Germany or Great Britain, he would not even be a popgun. For we are not yet a Nation but just an aggregation of races, culls-as it were. . . . The historic role of all religions, when their...
Anent Editor High's "tour de force in hailing Bishop Cannon as "the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928,"I would appreciate more light on the worthy editor's conception of religion, his definition of progress, and finally on how he can see "religious progress" in Bishop Cannon's conduct in the last campaign. To my mind the bishop's conduct was a sign of the "bankruptcy of protestantism" rather than one of "religious prog-ress...