Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
Charles Paddock was invited several years ago to compete in a meet held under the auspices of the University of Paris. The A. A. U. said no, because the University of Southern California was a member of the N. C. A. and a supporter of the National Intercollegiate meet. Had it been a Harvard athlete that was invited to the Paris University meet, the A. A. U. would not have attempted to stop...
...winner of this competition, which is open to all Sophomores in good standing, will accompany the team on the Southern trip in April...
Besides having the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere, the new Harvard Station will probably be the most completely equipped southern observatory. However the same plans will be followed that have proved successful in the operation of the Peruvian station: the programs of research will be made in Cambridge, and the photographic plates taken will be shipped to Cambridge for study by the observatory staff, and for filing in the observatory's large collection...
...reporters, and his work and that of his associates is the subject of columns of space. Likewise, the announcement that Harvard will establish a new station in South Africa finds its way into a prominent place in the evening newspapers under the heading. "Harvard Will Have Largest Telescope in Southern Hemisphere." That is news. But what great things that telescope discovers about the heavens will continue to find their way to the wastebasket. Are they too far away...