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...Shapley also mentioned the fact that Harvard University sponsored the first eclipse expedition ever sent out from an American institution, which left Boston in 1780. After special arrangements with the British forces who then held the Maine coast, the astronomical party was allowed to land at Penobscot Bay, though it was forbidden to communicate with the inhabitants. The observations were successful and instructive, being of great value to mariners as well as astronomers, for at that time the moon's position was not so accurately known...
...steamer Pemaquid made its way across the waters of Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...
...Daily Express (London) : " Before we organize a Fascismo to defend our dead, Shakespeare may be whisked off to Salt Lake City, Milton may be planted in Schenectady, Shelley in Bitter Creek, Dickens in Denver, Tennyson in Tallahassee, and William Penn in Penobscot...
...movement and expresses the thought admirably. In a very different vein is "The Ballad of the Overconfident Pollywog," by F. R. DuBois. This "fable for Freshmen" is full of life, amusing, and all the better for being quite different from the usual run of Advocate verse. "Sunset in Penobscot Bay" by W. B. W. shows appreciation of nature and is written in a metre well adapted to the subject. The number closes with several long book-reviews...
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Botanical Section.- Meeting tonight at 7.30 at 58 Hastings. Mr. Fernald will speak upon "Plant Distribution in the Middle Penobscot Valley." Members of the University desiring to become members of the society are invited to be present...