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...question of stellar distances is but one of the many problems that are presented to the professional astronomer, but the distances in miles which correspond to these parallax determinations tax the imagination to conceive. The contributions of astronomy in interpreting the sky and the earth's plane in the universe have exerted a profound influence on men's thinking in all ages'. For this reason, perhaps, astronomy makes so the casual star gazer who has learned to recognize familiar groups and the brighter planets...
...limit has always appeared to be about one hour. An hour's travel in a man and horse civilization meant three or four miles out for foot travellers. This was the real town limit. The area beyond, between the four and eight mile limit, or the horse travel limit, correspond to our suburban districts of today...
...coaches and selects the football team? There is no "coaching system" at Cambridge. The captain picks his men, shows them a little now and then when needed, and every so often gets advice on his team from old "Blues", who correspond to our letter men. Such professional coaching as exists in England is done at the schools. By the time the men come up to college they are supposed to know themselves how to play...
...wondering where their seats are in relation to the cheering section, the football management states that camps 5 and 6 are in the center of the field on the Harvard side, while 21 and 22 are the center sections on the Princeton side. Ramps 1 to 8 correspond with sections 1 to 12 in the Harvard Stadium; ramps 8 to 18 are in the Bowl of the Princeton structure, while the sections are numbered through 26 on the Princeton side of the field...
Early last spring, I addressed a letter to the Professor of Literature in the University of Berlin, asking him to send me the address of some student in the University with whom I might correspond, the topic of our correspondence being the contemporary fields of German and English literature. In due time, I received a letter from a student to whom the professor had handed the letter thinking that he was a suitable one to carry on such a correspondence...