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...College vote, which was completed last Friday, also returned Joan McPartlin '49, of Cambridge, as vice-president of the organization, Alice Stetson Clark '50, of Darien, Connecticut and 6 Acacia Street, as secretary, and Joan Braverman '50, of Lowell and Briggs Hall as treasurer...
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...
Sunspots cause electrodynamic waves in the upper atmosphere, which provoke the movements of warm and cold air masses, Stetson observes...
Weather bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...
...Blue Hills Observatory, however, Director Charles F. Brooks '12 took Stetson's theory with a grain of salt. "The sun has just as many spots in California," he commented, "and they're having the best weather in years...