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...great day came last week, but thick clouds spoiled the fun for much of the eastern U.S. Astronomers, forewarned, had readied more precise instruments than the earthbound human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...performances are for the benefit of the University, there is obviously an inequitable distribution of seats. If they are for the entertainment of the community, a public sale would assure skeptical Harvardmen that they are of no lower artistic perceptibility than the large-limousine set. Controlling the assignment of the bulk of the tickets, the University could; without offending its faculty and friends, include a greater percentage of students among the select Sanders spectators...
...college level, the committee also urged a common core, thought it was high time that Harvardmen in particular had something more in common than the ability to write grammatical English and swim 50 yards. The committee recommended the introduction of cut-across courses in the humanities, social sciences and science. Adopted almost unanimously by the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences, such general education courses will get under way next week, on an experimental basis...
...north of the Yard are the towering Memorial Hall, where Harvardmen once ate, now register and take exams, and the New Lecture Hall, now no longer...
Radcliffe and Stillman Infirmary, from which healthy little Harvardmen steer clear, are off to the left, or West...