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MOLLY SHEAFE JEWETT Lyme, Conn...
...Becker, was last week posted on all company bulletin boards of the 174th (National Guard) Infantry at Fort Dix, N. J. In Company K it met horrified eyes. Noncoms gave it as their considered opinion that Colonel Becker had outdone even their genial company commander, Captain Kelsey H. Jewett, in babying the privates, announced that, sooner than turn father, mother and big brother, they would rather be privates themselves. Company K seethed with reports that as many as 18 sergeants and corporals had determined to take a stand on this thing. Colonel Becker found only four rebellious sergeants...
...optical parts of the telescope have just been completed. They consist of a 33-inch spherical mirror, and correcting plate of 24 inches diameter. This important type of telescope was invented about ten years ago by Bernard Schmidt, of Hamburg, Germany, and to date the Jewett telescope is the largest to be put into operation. Construction of larger telescopes of this type was recently started for the Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, and at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology...
This new type reflector, it was explained, combines the advantages of the reflecting telescope and of the large-field photographic refractor. If both refracts and reflects. Ordinary reflecting telescopes cover satisfactorily only a fraction of one square degree of the sky at a time, but the new Jewett Reflector can cover from ten to a hundred square degrees, depending on the properties chosen for optical parts and mechanical parts. It is particularly effective for surveys of the distribution of galaxies and stars, variations of stars, and other problems where a large coverage and high speed are essential...
...Jewett Reflector is considered one of the three or four most important telescopes of the twenty-five in regular use at the Harvard Observatory, and in some ways, because of its unusual adaptability, the most important. It will greatly extend the survey of external galaxies in the northern hemisphere. Observatory officials believe that perhaps a million galaxies will be within its range...