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Working at the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis street with thousands of observations of latitude, Professor H. T. Stetson, with the assistance of Miss Margaret Olmstead, a graduate student at Radcliffe, has discovered a remarkable variation in the latitude of a place on the Earth's surface dependent on the rising and setting of the moon. This information was made known to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
...preliminary statement of the results was given in a paper by Professor Stetson and Miss Olmstead at the fall meeting of the American Astronomical Society at Amherst. Since then the investigation of thousands of observations for latitude of the Naval Observatory at Washington has been analyzed at the Harvard Laboratory and Dr. Stetson announces this appears unmistakeably to affirm the results of his previous study. The fact that this rise and fall of the value in latitude is gradual and systematic and represents a range nearly 20 times the value of the probable error leaves little room for doubt...
...business as a profession of new faiths. All of them, as soon as wealth came in sight had their schismatics, men and women who broke away from the prospering religious institution to form buccaneering organizations of their own. Judaism has had its breakaways; and Christianity, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Mormonism. Mrs. Stetson was Christian Science's divergent...
Died. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, 87, famed Christian Science leader; after ten weeks of illness; in Rochester...