Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
...yesterday's CRIMSON an article by a Harvard graduate and a present professor at the University of California which was reprinted in full from the "California Monthly" places the center of Harvard life in the Yard. With the advent of the House Plan and the resultant hegira toward the banks of the Charles there has arisen, and will probably continue to do so, a wailing chorus decrying the passing of ivy walls and boardwalks as the last-year men go down to the river...
...some time the notice column has been lengthened by announcements, of visits to Cambridge by representatives of many concerns, to the mutual benefit, it is hoped, of Seniors and business world. But this reversed Hegira has only begun, and the main body of those seeking recruits will arrive later in the spring...
...major argument favoring the hegira of the Freshman classes to the Yard as that it is, after all, the logical and practical place for the incoming men to live. A great deal has been said about the advantages of living in the Yard and the dubious contagion of its past and present associations. The intangible benefit derived would certainly be more profitable to the susceptible Freshman than to the blase Senior. With most of the upperclassmen separated from the College office proper by an intermediary House master, the Freshman class will be the almost important group directly under University Hall...
Meteorological indications for tomorrow show that the Harvard hegira to New Haven will not be hindered by adverse climatic conditions. Although a sudden cold snap may shut down tonight, a rising thermometer is forseen during the morning and early afternoon tomorrow...