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...Shoe, one sign of success is to get into a fraternity-preferably such "Row Fraternities" as Zeta Psi, the Fence Club, or Delta Kappa Epsilon. Far above these stand Yale's six senior societies-Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, and Elihu-whose new members are picked each year when the junior class lines up on Tap Day in Branford College Court, waiting for the slap on the back from some senior member...
...other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope or slick pond than the front stoop of Zeta...
...double star Zeta Aurigae, said Harvard's Dr. Zdenek Kopal, consists of a smallish blue-white star waltzing through space with a huge "red giant." As he expected, the little star passed behind the big one. But its light did not dim out with proper regularity. Dr. Kopal peered long and hard at his spectro-photographs, concluded that the atmosphere of the red giant had shot out a vast "prominence," 600,000 miles wide. "Watch Zeta Aurigae," he advised the astronomers...
...sure way for any mathematician to achieve immortal fame would be to prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis. This baffling theory, which deals with prime numbers, is usually stated in Riemann's symbolism as follows: "All the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of s, a complex variable, lie on the line where sigma is ½-(sigma being the real part of s)." The theory was propounded in 1859 by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (who revolutionized geometry and laid the foundations for Einstein's theory of relativity). No layman has ever been able to understand...
...observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, must be phrased in ordinary instead of scientific language. A censor might be difficult about such messages as: "Nova explosion Puppis shoot nightly using whole battery: 08095 13512 Urgent." This means: "Make systematic observations of bright new star in constellation Puppis near star Zeta using all telescopes...