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Identifier: adolfostahllectu00astruoft (find matches)
Title: The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Astronomical Society of the Pacific Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: San Francisco Stanford University Press
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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d. He watched the streamingriver and wondered from what bountiful breast this incessant watercame; he blinked at the Sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snareit and spear it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distanthills. Of the twentieth-century boy who has just had hisimagination fired by a lecture on the wonders of radium, Jiewrites: He made his way to the top of Arthurs Seat and there he sat fora long time in the golden evening sunshine, still, except that ever andagain he whispered to himself some precious phrase that stuck in hismind. H, he whispered, if only we could pick that lock. Heseemed to wake up at last out of his entrancement and the red Sunwas before his eyes. Into his mind came a strange echo of that ances-tral fancy, that fancy of a Stone Age, dead and scattered bones amongthe drift two thousand years ago. Ye auld thing, lie said, and hiseyes were glistening and he made a kind of grabbing gesture with hishand, Ye auld red thing. . . . Well have ye yet.
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PLATE XLI. The Great Nebula in Orion.Pliotograplicd by J. E. Keelcr, Crossley Reflector, Nov. 16, NEWS FROM THE STARS By Robert G. Aitken Like the Athenians in the days of St. Paul, we all delight totell or hear of some new thing. Whats the news? is astandard form of greeting and few of us can pass a bulletinboard or a newsboy shouting extra without stopping to getthe news. And marvelous indeed is the organization thatmakes it possible for us to learn each day the more importantitems of news from every part of the civilized world. Whetherit is that Steffanson has reached Fort Yukon after his longstay in the Arctic regions, that Guatemala has been visited bya disastrous earthquake, or that General Allenby has enteredJerusalem on foot, the agents of the Associated Press havenoted the. fact almost before the event and we read of it nextmorning in our daily paper. At the present time, of course, the news we are all mosteager to hear is the news from over there, and in this theastronomer i
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