Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities cannot amicably settle a difference comparatively as trivial as the present one, then, and only then, is it time for more drastic action. Harvard and Princeton have too much in common; their horizon is too large to be obscured by one small cloud...
...advantage in conducting his campaign. If the Alps are in his way, the modern tactician usually does not attempt to scale them with his A's and B's and other white elephants, but maps out his course over a smoother ground. He sees ahead of him the threatening cloud of examinations, he is appalled by its menacing aspect, and he seeks protection along the more sheltered road of Geology or Astronomy. Even after making his start on the Appian Way of the Classics, be turns aside from the general examination on the Bible, Shakespeare, Dante, and Goethe, and walks...
...cleared up effectively. A class which decided to have official leaders chosen each year would commit itself definitely and there would be an end to the excuses of "not knowing the candidates." If on the other and the decision was to have no Sophomore or Junior officers, the cloud of criticism about "lack of spirit" and "indifference" would disappear. In either case, this miserable, dismal farce of the annual middle class elections would be stopped...
Amazing discoveries to the layman were those announced yesterday by the University observatory at Arequipa, Peru The measurements of the Magellanic cloud show it to be a separate galaxy from ours, with an entirely new system of stars to be explored. With the comforting assurance of the existence of two galaxies of stars, we can consider these to be an indefinite number: and the Milky Way, our own galaxy, on the edge of which we occupy a rustic backwoods position is nothing more than a trifling part of the Universe. After all, the Milky Way is a finite body...
...dizziness in reading the figures. In mathematics and philosophy "infinity" is referred to so often and so casually that it becomes a commonplace. And infinity is far more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving...