Word: novae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HARVARD DARTMOUTH Ellison, g. g., Gunther Herman, pt. pt., Lary Hartnett, c.pt. c.pt., Ferrini Lane, 1d. 1d., Cornehlsen Markwett, 2d. 2d., Snider, Murphy Mulliken, 3d. 3d., Breithut Harper, c. c., Stickler McQuaid, 3a 3a., Nova Park, 2a. 2a., B.L. Johnson Dreier, 1a. 1a., Gould Murphy, o.h. o.h., G. Johnson Wallace, i.h. i.h., Babcock...
...Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
...Novae, or new stars, are always happening along. They are new only from man's point of view, having existed long years before attaining the brightness which makes them visible through a telescope. But no other new star has behaved like Nova Pictoris. It may be that a terrific local explosion has occurred in part of the nebula making this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury...
...Nichols Club team in considered one of the stronger of the amateur club sixes that skirmish about the edges of the intercollegiate ice hockey kingdom. The Harvard skaters should meet stiffer opposition that they found on the Arena ice Thursday night, when they overwhelmed St. Francis Xavier College of Nova Scotia...
...three occasions in past years tonight's opponents have clashed. Twice Harvard has humbled the visitors, but in 1909, on the Stadium rink, the Nova Scotians triumphed by 3 to 1. Tonight, while Harvard will be striving to maintain its excellent promise of the early season, the Canadians will be anxious, to register a victory after a 19-year wait for the taste of triumph...