Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aside from that it was an almost universal success", he continued. "Three of our four stations experienced perfect weather conditions, and only at Buffalo did clouds interfere with our observations. We got 75 percent results from our efforts where we expected only 25 percent at the most...
Professor Shapley said that he had been at Buffalo and was naturally disappointed by the interference of the clouds there, but he went on to say: "While I didn't see the eclipse, I heard it all across the country. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company had arranged special wires between seven stations, Buffalo, Ithaca, Poughkeepsic, Middletown, Easthampton, Northampton and New York City. As the period of totality approached, the operator at each station in turn, beginning of course with Buffalo, reported the weather conditions and the time. When the actual phase of totality set on a certain prearranged signal...
...opening of the state individual squash racquets championship, in which many University players are planning to compete, has been shifted from February 2 to January 26. This change was made so that play will be over in time for the winner to enter the national tournament at Buffalo which begins February...
...rumor that the University squash team would enter the national championships at Buffalo on February 21, 22, and 23 was denied yesterday by the H. A. A. authorities. This decision is due to a rule in the statute books which forbids the financing of trips of minor sports teams outside of New England...
Also any hopes that either W. P. Dixon '25 or G. D. Debevoise '26 might be able to journey to Buffalo as representatives of the Boston district in the individual tournament were set at naught by a recent decision of the National Squash Committee, placing the University in a new squash district with Lincoln's Inn. Formerly the University was in the same district with the Harvard Club and the other metropolitan teams, but the new ruling does away with the right of individual Crimson players to join the Boston team in its trip to Buffalo...