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From dazzled Austrians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Bulgars and Hungarians, through whose central banks Dr. Schacht had swept like a meteor last week, deigning to dine with premiers, having audience with King George of Greece, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and accepting the Hungarian Cross of Merit, First Class, from the fingers of Regent Horthy, correspondents gleaned Schacht facts...
Today, through the bright blue sky which forms a clear, curving vault over the destinies of Harvard, there flashes a splendid new meteor:--one well fitted to take its place beside such marvellous and awesome celestial bodies as the Tercentenary Celebration, the Yale Race, the Freshman Smoker and the Rotary Traffic Program which is functioning in all its diabolic efficiency in Harvard Square. Such fulsome praise belongs only to an event of the first water; one which will be flashed to the far corners of the globe in precedence to all else of importance happening at Harvard. This afternoon...
...brightest meteor in Canada's political sky, Ontario's blatant, spellbinding Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, amazed his Province last week and staggered his closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were...
...trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes us. Beyond that is metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists...
...Loring B. Andrews '25 will give the second lecture, "The Moon and the Stars in Navigation," on Friday, and this will be followed by another lecture by Dr. Stetson, who speaks Saturday of this week on "The Earth, Radio, and the Moon." "Metoors and Meteor Craters on Earth and Moon," by Fletcher Watson, assistant in Astronomy, is scheduled for Monday, February 11, and Dr. Carol A. Rieke will deliver the last, "Theories of the Origins of the Earth and Moon" on Tuesday, February...