Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council will gather for the usual council meeting on Friday evening, convening at nine o'clock in the Pickering Memorial Room immediately following the Open Night held at the Observatory to which all members of the Association are cordially invited. The members are fortunate in being able to attend the first of the annual series of Open Nights, at which Dr. D. H. Menzel will lecture on "The Sun, a Variable Star." An important part of the activities of the Open Night will be the observation of various stars, through the new 15-inch telescope at the Observatory, the largest...
...interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire Vazquez Bello family, most of the heads of the Cuban Government who were expected to attend, and a good section of the cemetery. An electric wire ran to a Chinese burying ground eight blocks away...
...habitual cigarette smokers. Eight per cent of all Harvard students smoke expensive cigarettes. It is revealed also that 66 per cent have telephones in their rooms, 70 per cent have their own typewriters, while 60 per cent own radios. In the case of the theater, 52 per cent attend the movies once a week or oftener. The seashore attracts 62 per cent in the summer and 75 per cent of these students play tennis; golf attracts only 45 per cent...
...cheapest amounts to roughly $14. Many students cannot devote that much money for this kind of Saturday afternoon entertainment. Witness the 840 applicants for positions as ticket takers, where there were but 300 positions available. It is definitely hard, if not impossible for numbers of men to attend the Harvard football games. Possibly this is something to be thankful for. But the fact remains that the difference between the men who attend games and those who do not should be based on individual choice and not on financial considerations...
While 3000 children in Beverly, Revere, and Lynn, attend school under typical New England conditions, a group of University psychological experts, headed by Dr. Walter Dearborn, professor of Education, has been studying their menial and physical growth, tabulating statistics, and rechecking findings with meticulous care according to J. B. Knight, administrator of the psycho-educational survey...