Word: star
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...style of batting at which the men have been coached lately first showed its good results yesterday. Priest, the star pitcher of the Cornells, was knocked out of the box in three innings, and his successor fared no better than he had. The 'varsity made twenty-one safe hits and there were two particularly satisfactory features of this hitting. Only eleven balls were put up in the air, and, with the exception of four strike outs and a foul tip, every other hit was on the ground. Again the men did not try to knock long hits...
Further, it has been discovered that the sun has a slower apparent diurnal motion than the stars; that is, the sun, and a star rising at the same time, the star would set before the sun. Careful measurements show that this difference in fine is about four minutes. The motions of the sun and stars differ in direction as well as in speed. The sun apparently moves in a great circle, a circle at the centre of which the observer seems to stand. While the courses of the stars are small circles. This great circle which the sun describes...
...find the points of the compass we must first find a level surface and then by the arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing gradually smaller, till at last they seem almost to stand still. We arrive at the north star but this is not at the pole, for by means of the helioscope one may see many stars nearer...
...position of the pole were observed for many years, and records taken, we should see that its position is not always the same. For instance the star Vega will in 12,000 years be called the north star...
...Carter '92 is musical editor and dramatic critic on the Cincinnati Times-Star...