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...Sebastian Spering Kresge does not sell eyeglasses. He used to sell them to thrifty persons who, consulting neither oculist nor optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters. Last week, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an S. S. Kresge store in Boston, in selling eyeglasses, was "invading a field rightly sequestered ... to those possessing special training in a specified department of treatment of human ills...
...heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which can be measured. These stars represent all the main types, from blue...
...Register went deeply into debt, and if students who trade with the merchants enumerated below will make use of the advertisements, it will do much to lighten the Register's financial obligations. Henry J. Bean, tailor, on suit or overcoat, $25.00 Byrd Studio, Photographs, 14.50 A. A. Carter, Optician, 7.50 Elmer Chickering, Photographs, except during Nov. and Dec., 17.50 A. E. Covell Co., Opticians, 15.00 Frank Daley, Tailor, 8.00 R. I. Edwards, Tailor, 25.00 Felton Hall, 15.00 Garo Studio, Photographs, 35.00 Harvard Brewing Co., Harvard Beer, 60.00 C. Jacobson, Tailor, 15.00 Guilford, Kendrick & Ladd, Tailors, on $50 suit or overcoat...
...easy to see that the magnification resulting from these two would be almost fabulous; but these high powers are not practical and the use of a magnification of over five or ten thousand diameters is???are. The highest magnification attained by the leading German optician, Schenk, is 6,5000 diameters...