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...great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss. The loss to Astronomy and Science is inestimable, but all his friends will chiefly mourn him for his lovable personal qualities...
...measurement of satellites and stars. When we remember that astronomy and physics are the oldest branches of science known to civilization, we catch a glimpse of the vast fields for exploration before us. Professor Pickering with a few other Harvard men of his generation whom we have come to mourn, have shown us the courses to be followed. Our "Vale" is said with the full appreciation of the trust he has left...
...attack of influenza was followed by pneumonia, and he died at the Still man Infirmary on January 24. We mourn him as a trusted friend
...have fallen at Chateau Thierry, at Soissons, along the Vesle, and even in the camps of this country. The University has lost many sons; not only graduates, but classmates, students whom we have lived and worked with, comrades whom we have contested and competed with, men whom we now mourn with mingled feelings of sorrow and admiration. They gave all they ever had or hoped to have, to fulfill the call of duty, and in so doing have made their lives the lives of heroes. In their few years they have proved themselves great, following the path of glory till...
...that the rate will sink again. More and more we shall be called upon to face the bitter and yet proud griefs that our allies have suffered before us. We honor our dead as brave men who have given everything for a cause, but we must not stop to mourn too long. The greatest service we can do them is to "carry on" against the power that made them...