Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Shapley said that he had been at Buffalo and was naturally disappointed by the interference of the clouds there, but he went on to say: "While I didn't see the eclipse, I heard it all across the country. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company had arranged special wires between seven stations, Buffalo, Ithaca, Poughkeepsic, Middletown, Easthampton, Northampton and New York City. As the period of totality approached, the operator at each station in turn, beginning of course with Buffalo, reported the weather conditions and the time. When the actual phase of totality set on a certain prearranged signal...
Professor Shapley concluded by saying, "Of course we cannot tell for several weeks just what scientific discoveries will have been added to our knowledge of the sun and its eclipses. We hope, however, that our special study of the corona, conducted under very favorable conditions, will yield interesting results...
...special trains will carry about 5000 people from the South Station to Westerly, Rhode Island, tomorrow morning to see the total eclipse of the sun. To meet the expected rush from Cambridge, the Boston Elevated Company has announced that three extra subway trains will be run tomorrow morning. These will leave the Square at 5.06, 5.10, and 5.20 o'clock. The regular subway train is scheduled at 5.24 o'clock...
...University one-mile relay team will oppose the Notre Dame four in a special race as part of the program of the Knights of Columbus indoor track meet on February 7 in Mechanics Hall...
...happen. A great howl has arisen about the impracticability of a college education. So great was the howl that our educational authorities (ambiguous euphemism, saving us the embarrassment of distinguishing between faculties and trustees) began to make concessions to its demands. Courses in economics of a more highly specialized character were introduced; Greek and Latin were allowed to go by the boards as nonessentials; special, business schools sprang up; and there reigned the present state of uncertainty and confusion in our higher educational system...