Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This seems scarcely possible with the tutorial coyness at its present maidenly height. Like the shy wild creatures of the woods, perhaps only the extreme cold of the winter will induce them to eat at the tables where food is so kindly profferred. "In the trenchers by Christmas" would then be the motto for their conversion. But the undergraduate members of the House can hasten the process of domestication by always acting kindly, and never doing anything that might startle a tutor. Occasional tenders of friendship from the students, such as cocktails, or a snifter...
...addition to getting the spectra of the meteors, the watchers hope to find the velocity of the train drifts in the upper atmosphere, 60 miles above the earth. At this height there is a terrific speed and nothing else gives as good an idea of the velocity as the paths of the meteors...
...aggregation of St. Nicholas welcomers will convene at 13 Birch Street at 8 o'clock Thanksgiving morning. Here groups will be assigned to the mammoth rubber animals which measure up to forty feet in length and twenty feet in height. Owing to the fact that the balloon creatures are inflated with gas and are of such magnitude, it is expected that a number of Harvard men will guard each animal in an attempt to maintain its state of captivity...
Observations will be made from three separate points, the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, the Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, and Hopkinton, about 25 miles west of Boston, in order that the height, as well as the course of the meteors may be computed. The meteors will be recorded by the naked eye, the telescope, and camera, from 12 o'clock until dawn, but the weary hours of watching will be relieved by rest spells and refreshments...
...champion in the "440" and Robert D. Fallon '33, from Exeter Academy, who placed third in the 50 and 100-meter of the intercollegiates, were the mainstays of the team in free-style last year and this year's group as yet shows no one to replace them in height, weight, or experience, in this department...