Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent trip in Northern Africa, made in the company of two Arab guides, F. Van Wyck Mason '24 had a number of thrilling encounters with the bands of marauders that infest the region. The following article is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, and tells of one such encounter...
...other acknowledged black saint is Moyses the Ethiopian (4th Century). St. Augustine (354-430) with Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory the Great, a Father of the Church, is presumed by many believers to have been a Negro. He was born at Tagaste in Numidia (Northern Africa...
...chief iron-ore-producing region of the United States, moreover, is north and west of Lake Superior; and shipment is made from the northern shore in much greater volume than "from the lake's southern shores...
...will always be too near the horizon for good observations, while at either pole, an observer would never see more than half the celestial sphere. Perhaps no better combination of two stations is possible than one anywhere in the southern temperate zone, cooperating with one similarly placed in the northern hemisphere. This has ben accomplished approximately for many years by the Harvard Observatery with its auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru."MILKY WAY The cut of the galaxy reproduced above was made from a photograph taken at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru. It shows the southern Milky Way with...
...north pole never set, so that they may be observed as continuously as the Sun permits. The position of the Earth is a good one except for for southern stars and for these one must go below the equator. It is on this account that for a long time northern one servatories have established more or less permanent branch stations in the Southern Hemisphere, and southern colonies and nations have established observatories of their own, or have encouraged their establishment by private institutions...