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...PHILIP HUMASON STEINMETZ...
...past month Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing...
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...which were to come the first of the week, kept many members of the society away, but the forty who were present passed a remarkably pleasant evening. The dinner was excellently served, and the speeches which followed were sufficiently informal to be thoroughly enjoyed. To the committee, Messrs. Heminway, Humason, and Martin, many thanks are due for the able manner in which they performed the duties assigned to them...
...annual supper of the Institute of 1770 will take place at Parker's, on June 19, at 7 P. M. Tickets, four dollars each, can be obtained by members of the Society from the committee, Messrs. Humason, Heminway, and Martin, up to 12 o'clock on the 18th...