Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of the club came from this winter's managerial group, including Jackson Bird '38, basketball, Alden S. Blodgett, Jr. '38, hockey, George P. Byrne, Jr. '38, swimming, and George H. Spencer '38, track. F. Stanton Deland Jr. '36, assistant to the Director of Athletics, presided at the foundation meeting...
Harvard astronomers have discovered a gigantic cluster of stars in the southern sky, which apparently belongs to no known class of cosmic systems, and which may thus reveal the existence of an entirely new group of star systems in the universe, it was reported today in the Harvard Observatory Bulletin by Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory...
Despite its vast size, including thousands of individual stars, and stretching out 2 degrees in the sky, the group has never before been seen by astronomers because of its faintness, Shapley said...
Although they have been able to count the thousands of stars now visible in the group, the astronomers have been unable as yet to measure its distance and size, and these characteristics must be known before the object can be properly classified. Before accurate definition of the group is possible, the observers must find within it some variable stars, whose period and brightness can be used to determine the distance and dimensions of the body, it was explained...
Disclosure of the group was a matter of good fortune, depending on the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focused on Sculptor on a very clear night. The photograph on which the system was found was taken at the Harvard astronomical observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa...