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...billion genus homos who inhabit our twirling sphere can now breathe a sing of relief; at the Physical Colloquium, held in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon, Dr. W. R. Aston, professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, reaffirmed his statement that the sun will shine for some billion years more instead of only a paltry few million as formerly predicted...
...this serious, cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers. The ghost will become as rare as the bison...
...Nature let us be fair and above board; let the reformers figure out how many days they want in a week, a month, and a year, and then let our scientists devise a method (as Jules Verne tells us was done by the "Gun Club") for blowing this old sphere off its course so that its motions may give a length of day and of year according to the desires of the children of men. By all means, let us have a scientific solution...
...sphere of influence of the student advisors has two main aspects. To begin with, he can do much to aid in the transition between preparatory school and college. By helping his advisee to organize his work, to develop a more mature attitude toward his studies, and to plan his courses carefully, the student mentor can supplement the efforts of the faculty authorities. There is also a very great opportunity to assist men in the choice of their outside activities. This duty falls primarily upon the student body, and is quite properly outside the sphere of faculty supervision...
Again in 1913, an American company, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, negotiated with the Chinese Government with a view to build a naval shipyard for China with American materials and technical assistance in Fukein Province Japan projected. Fukien was claimed to be her sphere of interest, and no American can could be allowed to make such an investment. The present Japanese objection to the proposed establishment of radio stations in China by the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States further illustrates how Japan tries to close China's door to other powers except herself...