Word: nantucketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...
...growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening...
...both ways. He had advertised for a crew and managed to get eight men. Five of them had worked on Enterprise in the races. Stimulated by success, they were ready for more adventures. The anchor was stowed below decks and everything battened down. Before they lost sight of Nantucket Light-ship the sea freshened. The cook got seasick, the barometer went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm...
Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing...
...last summer he was absent from his City Hall office. He refused to see newsmen. His friends explained that he was a very ill man, more concerned with recovering his health than setting the city to rights. But three weeks ago he returned from a long vacation at Nantucket looking fit again. And last week his name figured large in news of Chicago's crime situation. His wife, returning from the theatre, was robbed of $15,500 worth of jewelry at the entrance of their apartment house...