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...unconsciousness preceding death. In "No, No, Go Not to Lethe," Mr. Babcock, the hero, derives complete satisfaction and pleasure from imagining what goes on in the minds of other people. When the possibility arises that someone will do the same to him, his little world rocks crazily on its orbit...
...order of the universe and Doctor Bok successfully and interestingly presents the necessary minimum in Astronomy 1. The lectures and reading cover the mechanisms of the physical universe from the atom to the galaxy while the laboratory work concerns itself with the more mechanical problems such as orbit determination and star distribution. With a knowledge of algebra and trigonometry the student should find this course one of the more pleasant ways of fulfilling his science requirement while those taking mathematical training will find the course of average difficulty. The work will be facilitated next year by the further development...
...partly self-luminous. What element made it so? Not knowing, they called it "coronium." As recently as last year, in a standard work on eclipses, "coronium" was treated with respect. The Menzel-Boyce report unmasks it as mostly oxygen in bizarre atomic metamorphoses. The normal oxygen atom has eight orbital electrons. Menzel & Boyce proceeded to imagine oxygen atoms in such a state of excitation that electrons could skip freely from one orbit to another. Such excited atoms, according to quantum theory, should have energy levels differing from each other by precise amounts. Drs. Menzel & Boyce expressed a number of these...
Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, has discovered a new comet and with the help of an assistant has computed its orbit, it was announced at the Observatory yesterday. The comet was discovered by accident on a photographic plate taken with the 16 inch refracting telescope at the Oak Ridge observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...point of departure for a broad and far-reaching decision. He declared that the power of disbarment exists in the judicial branch of the Government, independent of any constitutional or statutory grant. Said he: "It is not always easy to determine what objects are naturally within the range or orbit of a particular department of government, but it will scarcely be denied that a primary object essentially within the orbit of the judicial department is that courts properly function in the administration of justice . . . and in the light of judicial history they cannot long continue to do this without power...