Word: 85th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of this cloudy past, the Harvard Summer School, the oldest in the nation, with 1960 making the 85th consecrative session. Professor Asa Gray started vacation sessions in 1872. For a six-week period, he gave special instruction in Botany, a successful experiment repeated following year by Professor Louis Agassiz. Other members of the Lawrence Scientific School--now part the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--later offered courses in Chemistry and Geology for their private benefit. Thus the Summer School was born, quietly, unnoticed by his historians or by the outside world...
...convocation in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow will open the 85th session of the school. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, and Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education. Emeritus, will speak at the annual gathering, representing the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Faculty of Education. Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the Summer School, will introduce the two professors...
...York City's most eminent senior citizens, Vienna-born Violinist Fritz Kreisler, proudly made his way to city hall, where on his 85th birthday he got a civic scroll for "distinguished and exceptional service" from Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Aside from composing such popular tunes as Romance and Caprice Viennois, Virtuoso Kreisler also "ghostwrote" a series of compositions that he ascribed to 17th and 18th century masters; years later he confessed that he had done so because "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs." During the city hall ceremony Kreisler, who played...