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...optional examinations and the first year scholarship examinations of the Harvard Law School will be held on the same day and at the same hour this year, January 5, at 2 o'clock. Hitherto the scholarship examinations have been held about December 15 and the optionals about February...
...fifty-six new variable stars have been discovered at the University Observatory in the course of recent observations, it was announced late last night by Professor Harlow-Shapley, director of the Observatory. The observations were undertaken by the Observatory staff in the effort to gather definite information regarding stars, hitherto only slightly known, and their findings have not hitherto been published anywhere. The remarkable success of the observations is largely due to the unusual visibility afforded by the Observatory's 18-foot Coude telescope...
...last another oasis has appeared in a prolonged desert. Mr. Hoover has taken up the task so admirably started by Colonel Lindbergh in offering gratuitous lessons in geography. The daily papers are continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...iconographic collection recently presented to Harvard contains a good deal of material hitherto entirely unknown in the West, and we hope that it will be used to good advantage by those members of this University who are interested in the civilization of Eastern Asia...
...Hitherto the Friends of Music has used the Metropolitan Opera orchestra...