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Right Answer. To check the theory, Miller got help from Astronomer Walter Baade of Mt. Wilson and Palomar, who computed the phase and position of the moon at the time when the supernova could first have been seen in Arizona. The answer came out right. The moon was a crescent, as drawn. In northern Arizona it would have risen shortly before dawn on July 5th, and the supernova would have been close to it. The sight must have been striking; the supernova was probably the brightest object, other than the sun, ever to be seen by historic...
...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...halls, and the undergraduate ate wherever he could, in Square beanies, in clubs--almost anywhere. In December, President Lowell announced that "the Corporation has given me permission to go ahead with plans on a $100,000 dining hall, to be located on the old church site at Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, but the Corporation does not intend to spend $100,000 to construct an empty hall. Do you men care for club tables...
Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars-all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather-and more truthfully-that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends...
...were filled by lot, and one instance is recorded of a student selling his Holworthy priority for a $150 bonus. But such immense popularity was not destined to last; by 1900, private baths, electric lights, and other luxuries had drawn wealthy students to the private Gold Coast houses on Mt. Auburn Street. Holworthy became "just another dormitory...