Word: reports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...
Prim and precise as a New England diary was the annual report of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He began: "The present secretary was appointed and qualified at 2:35 p.m. on March 5, 1929." Then followed a careful catalog of all the places he had been on official duty, with ship names and dates...
Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting...
Contrary to the reports in the Boston papers yesterday, the various swimming pools at Harvard will not be drained for the winter because of water shortage, according to a statement by T. W. Good, of the Cambridge Water department. The report had previously been circulated that the reservoir in Lincoln, which supplies the city of Cambridge, was so low that no hockey rinks might be maintained, and that all swimming pools would have to be drained during the winter months...
...Syracuse Freshman crew which won first place in the Freshman race at the Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta at Poughkeepsie last June. At Syracuse it is understood that he never rowed on a losing crew. His home formerly was in Duluth, Minnesota. He is about 36 years of age. He will report at Harvard next week...