Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...come into Boston harbor, and several Harvard men by giving there monthly entertainments and smokers keep in touch with the life about the wharves. About 800 fishermen have their mail addressed to the reading-room, and from 25 to 150 men frequent it daily. Anyone who knows the peculiar temptation of the saloon for newly-landed sailors will understand the province and value of a place where these men can profitably spend their time ashore...
...telescope purchased last spring. Only the lenses of the latter have as yet been received, but the mountings, are now nearly ready and it is expected that the telescope will be in working order in a few weeks. The clearness of several photographs taken recently has demonstrated the peculiar power of these lenses, and it is believed that the telescope will be of great value in the investigations to be pursued this winter...
Arlowe Kingsbury Miller '06 died at the Eliot Hospital in Boston, on Monday, April 20. His death was due to a peculiar throat disease, which began with the symptoms of acute tonsilitis several weeks ago. The funeral services were held in Chicago...
...Friday, the Society will have perfected on of the best plays it has yet produced. The book and lyrics are by P. L. Coonley '03, the author of "Queen Philippine," the play given last year. The plot, which is laid in India, has many ingenious situations for which the peculiar superstitions of that country in regard to the preservation of the idols of Buddha give foundation. The music by A. w. Denison '03, has the spirit, and liveliness that was the chief characteristic of the "Queen Philippine" music, which he also composed. It will be rendered entirely by members...
...Wilfred Grenfell of the Hospital Ship, "Strathcona," spoke last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Labrador Life on the Atlantic Seaboard." He told of the topographical and scenic characteristics of the Labrador region and of the peculiar conditions of life existing there. Among the fishermen and the natives on the barren coast, the Royal Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, under whose direction Dr. Grenfell's hospital ship is conducted, has for many years been doing a very successful work...