Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard College Observatory is to be the host of the forty-third meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which is to last from Monday, December 30 to Thursday, January 2. About 100 out-of-town visitors are expected, including astronomers from all parts of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the meeting is to make known the latest discoveries, to expose the newest theories to criticism, and to exchange ideas on the cosmic riddles. Papers on these subjects are to be discussed in several sessions throughout the period...
...council meeting in the Continental Hotel is to start the session on Monday. On Tuesday morning there will be reading of papers by various members of the society, followed by a trip to Wellesley and a tea in the Whitin Observatory residence. In the evening, the Harvard Observatory is to be open to visitors from 7.30 to 9 o'clock, after which Mr. and Mrs. Harlowe Shapley will hold a New Year's Eve party. Wednesday is to be devoted mainly to the reading of more papers. On Thursday, the General Electric plant in West Lynn is to be visited...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard has voted the minor sport "H" to seventeen players and Manager J. P. Skinner ocC of the varsity soccer team...
Announcement of holders of travelling fellowships and scholarships of the Harvard School of Architecture has been made by G. H. Edgell '09, dean of the school. The Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship in Architecture, established for 18 months of travel and study, has been granted to J. L. Cannon '26. The Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowships in Architecture, also for a year and a half of peripatetic study, are held by C. O. Root and C. T. Larson '25. One of the travelling fellowships from the Frederick Sheldon Fund, which was established for a student of promise in any school...
...years ago, Harvard held an informal boxing match with M. I. T. This meet was highly successful from every standpoint, but the undergraduate members of the committee defeated the plan then proposed for making boxing an intercollegiate sport at Harvard...