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Seeing stars is a common complaint of wrestlers, but few take it as seriously as Richard N. Thomas '42, captain of the wrestling, who is an astronomer in his own right.

Long distinguished for his brawn, he has new won publicity for his scientific ability by computing the orbit of the new comet discovered last Saturday by Fred L. Whippe, lecturer on Astronomy. The computation, described by Thomas as "a routine astronomical calculation," involved a differential equation with six arbitrary constants.

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