Word: robin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinking in the Atlantic last summer of the S.S. Robin Goodfellow cost the University, according to the report, one-fifth of a year's photographic plates from the observatory at Bloemfortein, South Africa, which maintains a constant photo coverage of the southern skies. This was the first shipment of plates risked in two years from great quantities at Bloemfortein awaiting transfer to Harvard for analysis...
Conducted by George Brown, the orchestra will have Miss Nell Robin, Radcliffe '46, as the soloist. The program includes Mozart's Symphony number 39, Boccherini's Concerto in B flat for violoncello, Moussorgsky's Introduction to Khovantchina, and Johann Strauss' Overture to Die Fledermaus...
Soloist for the evening will be Miss Nell Robin, Radcliffe '46, who is a cellist and a member of the orchestra. The Pierian Sodality, which is sponsoring the programs, was founded in 1808 and is the oldest undergraduate organization now functioning at Harvard...
...story is an old one, which wears well because it appeals to man's desire to be free of convention. A London lady, Joan Fontaine, bored by her secluded life, falls in love with a dashing but thoroughly honorable Robin Hood of the sea, Arturo de Cordova. The story is a romantic and glorified one, but it is not false. No old maid's happy ending makes a travesty of the film...
Smith and De Koven." But Robin Hood's success mounted so fast that The Bostonians alone gave it 4,250 performances, and netted De Koven and his librettist over a million dollars...