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...miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line, the shift in a stars position is so slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found to be about 60,000,000,000,000 miles, or so far away that the light from it consumed ten years...
There has been developed, however, in recent years, at the Mount Wilson Observatory a new method of determining parallaxes which may be applied to the more remote stars and which unlocks great possibilities for a study of stellar distances from the hundreds of plates in the photographic library of the Harvard Observatory. The newer method rests upon careful interpretation of small differences in the spectra of stars. A systematic study shows a definite relation between the actual iuminosity or radiating power of known stars of certain classes and the relative intensity of the absorbtion lines in their spectra...
...question of stellar distances is but one of the many problems that are presented to the professional astronomer, but the distances in miles which correspond to these parallax determinations tax the imagination to conceive. The contributions of astronomy in interpreting the sky and the earth's plane in the universe have exerted a profound influence on men's thinking in all ages'. For this reason, perhaps, astronomy makes so the casual star gazer who has learned to recognize familiar groups and the brighter planets...
Thompson, Spaulding and Barclay are the shot put stars, while Baker and Emery are the stellar hammer men. Baker, guard on the football team, is especially dangerous as he has a record well over 150 feet. The pole vault looks weak at present, but either Paul or Maynard may show up well, although they have had little experience...
...Harvard offensive, caging five baskets; Fitts at center made two, while Gordon, sent in at the last second in spite of his recent illness, found the ring for the decisive shot which at the last moment broke the tie. In the defensive positions, Black and Rudofsky played their usual stellar game and forced the Blue to put almost its entire reliance in long shots from mid-floor...