Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual University Handicap Cross Country Run will take place this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock over the four and one-half mile course at Soldiers Field. Among those running will be Robert S. Playfair '36, stellar Crimson harrier, who recently won the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Cross Country Run and Charles F. Woodard '35, both of whom will start from scratch. Handicaps will be announced just before the start of the race. Last year's run was won by Frederick L. Steele, 3d '33, while Arthur Foote '33, starting from scratch, was setting a new course record of 22 minutes...
Beginning the annual series of "Open Nights" at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, Dr. Carol A. Ricke, eminent physical scientist, will give a short non-technical talk on "Measuring Stellar Distances" next Saturday at 7.30 o'clock. Weather permitting the audience will be allowed to make telescopic observations of celestial objects following the address...
Edward Chales Pickering '65, who devised a photometer for measuring star distances, has given Harvard the largest collection of stellar photographs in the world. There were over 250,000 plates of both southern and northern stars in his laboratories. William Henry Pickering, who was also a professor of Astronomy here, discovered Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn and proved that it moved in a direction opposite to the others. He travelled widely, made intensive studies of the moon, and established an observatory in Jamaica, British West Indies...
...lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded by meteors from the direction of Leo, so that as many as 40 "shooting stars" can be seen in one minute with the Naka eye. There will be an exhibit of outstanding stellar photography, and an observation and identity of constellations if the weather permits. The development of astronomical equipment, illustrations of the Hooker telescope, the famous Lick observatory, spectroscopes, and the work Harvard has done in solar studies in South Africa, will be shown...
...Lect. Hall TUESDAY, JUNE 13 (IV) Anthropology 13 Emerson D Chemistry A Mallinckrodt MB9 Chemistry 3b Mallinckrodt MB8 Chemistry 21 Sever 17 Economics 14b Emerson D Economics 33 Sever 1 English 3b Harvard 2 English 15 Sever 36 English 29b Emerson D Fine Arts 1d Fogg Large Room Ach-Stellar Robinson Annex Stone-Woodard Fine Arts 5p Van Rensselaer Rm. Geography A Geol. Lect. Rm. German 1b Mr. Hawkes, Sec. 1 Emerson 211 Mr. Henry, Sec. 2 Emerson 211 Dr. Heffner, Sec. 3 Emerson 211 German 5 Sever 35 Government 13b Sever 6 Greek 12 Sever 35 History...