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...stern, and some spark set off its powder magazine, the result would be something like what happens when a star explodes as a supernova. Supernovae are the mightiest celestial cataclysms known to man. Last week astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California reported discovery and observation of a super-nova in the distant island universe NGC 4273. Although about a dozen supernovae have been found by chance on photographic plates, the one announced last week was the first since 1901 to be watched during its performance and the second since the invention of the telescope...
...tell me many things which I was glad to learn: My Tower be exactly 200 feet high, 35 feet square. On a clear day it is possible to see even unto Wellesley (but this I knew); there bemuch buff sandstone in the Tower which comes from Nova Scotia; there be a reproduction of our John Harvard statue here all made of paper; but most important I did hear much of the men whom this Tower commemorates. This Hall does shine with famous names...
Keith R. Porter, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as Austin Teaching fellow of Biology until September...
Professor Dawson received his A.B. from Acadia University, Nova Scotia, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1918. Following graduation he taught at Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick, and at New York University until 1929, when he joined the Harvard faculty...
Astronomers have suggested that the Star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men to the Child Jesus was a nova or "new star," exploding like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward...