Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing on the grass courts at Longwood Cricket Club Saturday afternoon, two members of the University tennis team were instrumental in gaining victory for Boston in the Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...Williams '16, former Davis Cup luminary and National titleholder, was the outstanding performer for the Philadelphia team, taking the No. 1 singles matches in brilliant style, 6-3, 6-4, from Lawrence Rice, the Boston leader, and being in great part responsible for a doubles victory over Whitheck and Hill...
...Hill, the other Harvard entry, duplicated his team-mate's performance by finishing in good style after a ragged start. He overcame Lawrence Brown...
...Blue Hill Observatory, located on the summit of Great Blue Hill in the Metropolitan Park Reservation, was founded by the late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch in 1884. Regular observations, begun on February 1, 1885, have been continued without interruption for over 40 years and constitute a unique series in the history of American climatology. The equipment consists of standard European and American makes of barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and wind instruments, to which are added sunshine recorders, instruments for recording night cloudiness, and improved types of nephoscopes for day observations. The results of the observations made with these instruments, together with...
...library of the station contains 8,298 bound volumes and 16,445 pamphlets dealing chiefly with aerography, and some rare copies of early publications in meteorology. A secondary station, at the base of the hill, is supplied, with self-registering instruments, the records of which are used to advantage in studies of the circulation of the lower...