Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced...
This association of strong drink with Class Day is a significant historical strand. In 1693, probably before the advent of the valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class...
North Carolina's tennis star Vic Seixas turned in one of his many spectacular performances Tuesday when he led his fellow Tarheels to win over the Crimson. But unfortunately for Cambridge tennis enthusiasts, all-day rains forced his match off the Soldiers Feld courts and into Boston's Badminton and...
Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer who has collected over one million observations on variable stars, will celebrate his fiftieth year at Harvard with a symposium at 8:15 p.m. tonight at the College Observatory.
When Campbell started his work, only 1,400 variable stars--stars that change in brightness--were known. Now over 12,000 are listed in his files, with another 8,000 probable. He recorded his millionth observation a few years ago.