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Show CHART OF ILLIMITABLE VOID Remarkabl FJve.Acro Sectional Map of th Sky at Harvard University. Uni-versity. This seems to be an age of great thlngB To talk of billions no longer occasions a shlvor of incredulous admiration ad-miration One of the wonders at Harvard Har-vard university today is a five-acre Bectional map of just plain sky and constellations At the expeneo of more than a million dollars Harvard university has provided the chart which distinctly shows 1.600,000 stars, this hating been prepared in sections by the Harvard university astronomers. astron-omers. The sectlono of the map, placed together, would cover an area of more than five acrco, which Is a protty extensive plan of charting the "inimitable void" In a scholarly annual ropor the director di-rector of the observatory cr . attention atten-tion to the faot that during the past year 3,796 photographs of ntars were made by the obcorvatory. For more than C6 years the Harvard observatory observa-tory has kept complete records of astronomical as-tronomical developments. By reason of thirty years' work and an expenditure expendi-ture of a million dollars, this observatory observa-tory ia placed ahead of all other similar simi-lar Institutions. In the study of the stars at tho Harvard Har-vard observatory tbero Is something more than mere- love of knowledge or tender aontimenL Even tho clow-paced clow-paced walk of lovers under the arching arch-ing Cambridge lms has nr moro of witchery and romance about it than tho wonders of scientific research Btored away in tho college observatory, observa-tory, which with Its various stations has already becomo tho shrlno of modern mod-ern astronomers. "Affaire and Folks," Joe Mitchell Chappie, In Joe Chappie's Ncwa-Letter. |