Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While in camp, reserve officers are on active duty. They draw Government pay. They may be ordered on active duty by the President at any time for any period, but need not remain for more than 15 days in any one calendar year unless Congress has declared a national emergency. Reserve officers must buy their own uniforms and insignia and keep them ready for active duty. Uniforms may be worn by reservists not on active duty while in the U. S., on specified occasions (social functions, military ceremonies, instructing at schools and the like...
Today marks the formal conclusion of the University's academic and cultural year; tomorrow witnesses the informal climax to Harvard's 1927-1928 athletic and social calendar. Today all eyes are upon the 1884 men who, with sombre intellectual mien, accept the University's tribute to their various degrees of scholastic endeavor. Tomorrow the stage and scenery undergo a metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises...
...south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis of the spectra of southern nebulae, the determination of the velocities of bright stars, the establishment of standard series of magnitudes, the investigations of the light changes...
Nearly every crime in the baseball calendar was committed by the University players, who tossed the ball around wildly, misjudged flies and grounders in an exhibition of some of the worst playing seen on Soldiers Field in a long, long while. Five errors were chalked up against the infield...
...this timely gesture with the bat, Dobens held the Harvard hitters in the hollow of his hand throughout the game. He allowed only four hits and struck out eight men. The potency of his spell is seen in the fact that although he committed every fault in the pitching calendar, the score was no larger. Three passes, three hit basemen, a balk and a wild pitch could not dim the glory of his hurling performance...