Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auspices of the Graduate Schools Committee of the Phillips Brooks House the third of a series of lectures on religion will be given tomorrow at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall on the third floor of the Phillips Brooks House. The speaker will be the Reverend Mr. Stanley Ross Fisher, who will discuss "What is Happening in China...
Three cameras manned by students of Astronomy 1, and under the direction of Dr. W. J. Fisher, will be set to watch the skies from the College Observatory for the Leonid meteer shower, which is expected to occur any night from now until Tuesday...
This year, however, Dr. Fisher, who is known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman," believes that such perturbation will be less, and that, if the weather is favorable, it may be possible to photograph the shower. As the stream of meteers is so rich that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next...
Following the custom established in former years, the Idler Society and the Harvard Dramatic Club will exchange actors for the plays produced during the year. The complete cast of "The Enchanted April" is as follows: Mrs. Fisher, Agnes Love '34; Mrs. Wilkins, Elizabeth G. Morrison '34; Mrs. Arbuthnot, Edwina Morgulis, '32; Francesca, Marie Driscoll '32; Lady Caroline Dexter, Bettye Jean Crocker '32; Clerk, Florence Usher '33; Thomas Briggs, P. G. Hoffman '32; Ferdinand Arundel, V. S. Hodges '34; Dominico, S. D. King '34; Mr. Wilkins, J. F. Joyce...
...provision that the Central Board may reduce the promised 50 per cent of total local expenses in the case of schools which allow overcrowding of classes, unsanitary conditions, or other causes of inefficiency, helps to maintain a high standard of school administration. The advance of school age which Mr. Fisher contemplated has not yet been realized, but night schools, vocational schools and other special classes for children of over 14 years of age, help to compensate for this failure...