Word: flagstaffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only tangible evidence we have of the nature of solar and stellar matter. At the direction of Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy and under the immediate supervision of Dr. Ernest J. Opik, Lecturer in Astrophysics, several Harvard men are working at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona on meteors, and have attempted through the newspapers to secure all possible information about these celestial nomads...
...told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered President Garfield's casket after his assassination...
...graduated from M. I. T. in 1879. He taught there and at Harvard, where in 1890 he was made assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard. In 1891 he located the Harvard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, spent the following two years measuring the big Peruvian mountains. He built the Flagstaff station and the one at which he now works in Jamaica. Only one astral unit is definitely his discovery (Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn), but he has a claim on the as yet unrecognized tenth satellite Themis...
...report later proved to be true reached the CRIMSON building late last night to the effect that a huge 15 by 30-foot green Dartmouth banner bearing a large white "D" had been placed by unknown persons on the flagstaff of the Lampoon building...
...just how much fealty the College can justifiably require from an individual outside Hanover walls. To what extent is the individual obligated? To what extremes may the College proceed to maintain a normal tone of decency among these undergraduates who, for the moment, are not clustered under the very flagstaff of the College's banner...