Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen years ago Clarence Augustus Chant, longtime professor of astrophysics at University of Toronto, gave a talk on a comet, in his usual simple lyrical style, to a group of amateur astronomers. When he had finished a stranger went up and shook his hand warmly...
...indeed it would!" exclaimed the greying astronomer, who had been thinking the same thing for many a year. Born near Toronto, educated at Toronto University and head of its astronomy department for 16 years, he had written scores of books and papers, spent much time spreading his own enthusiasm for the stars. But he had no observatory...
Oldest horse-race in the U.S. is not the Kentucky Derby but Saratoga's Travers Stakes, first run in 1864. Oldest consecutively run race in North America is not the Travers Stakes but the King's Plate, run last week at Toronto, Canada. Queen Victoria, on petition of the Toronto Turf Club, put up the original prize in 1859. After her death in 1901, the name of the race was changed from the Queen's Plate. That few U.S. race followers know much about the King's Plate is not extraordinary. The field is limited...
...perturbed by the quality of entrants in Canada's greatest racing classic, 18,000 Toronto socialites and plain people last week swarmed into Woodbine Park. In honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal...
Honorable mention to: Abraham Hertzberg '35, of New York, N. Y.; Joseph Prescott '35, of Fall River, Mass.; Robert L. McCaul, Jr. '35, of Waltham, Mass.; Wendell M. Hastings '35, of Brookline, Mass.; Philippe Dur '35, of Toronto, Ont., Canada; Edward Epstein '37, of Beverly, Yorks, England...