Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientists from all over the country will gather on Wednesday, March 23, to dedicate the building which has been completed as an addition to the Harvard Observatory. At a session held in the morning and beginning at 10 o'clock, H. B. Plaskett, professor of Astrophysics, and Savillian professor of Astronomy, will preside. The meeting is open to the public...
Starting its spring season, the Liberal Club will gather Wednesday afternoon at 1.45 o'clock in the Common Room of Lowell House to listen to three speakers who will present the cause of the National Committee to Aid Striking Miners Fighting Starvation...
...Paris the high priests of Bacchus now hold forth. But in these degenerate days no furied band of Maenads follows beloved Liber's route, for only a solemn group of graybeards meets to celebrate the triumphal offerings of the vine. They gather, whiff the sacred fragrance, and sip, nor do they ever drink to the joys of youth and songs of pleasure. They are sad, as wine has made them sad; the fields of Bacchus have been sullied by the mundane and unworthy impious of the temple of Mercury. The cratera is empty, while cases of gin replace the dusty...
...prologue has ended; a century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese walse to give it soul...
...ineffectual esthete, he has helped to gather many a scientific blossom...