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...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...
...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...
...Harvard hockey team will again take to the ice after its mid-year respite in a contest of an international flavor at the Boston Arena tonight. St. Francis Xavier College, of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, will face the Crimson six at 8.15 o'clock...
...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...
Fish experts at the Museum of Comparative Zoology are still, puzzled over the strange fish which they have just received. It was caught off Brown's bank, 60 miles southwest of Nova Scotia by fishermen on the schooner Wanderer, and because it could not be identified it was packed in ice and shipped to Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...