Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...
When Manager B. M. Wing of the Dining Hall was informed of the reports which have been in circulation, he said that he would take up the matter of making special preparations for the closing meals with President Lowell. He held out hope for a special dinner for the evening, so the crowds who throng the commons tomorrow evening will sit at a festive board which may recall the days of old when delicacies were piled upon the tables for the men of '74 at the first meal Memorial Hall ever served, 50 years before its last...
...Harvard, the University Observatory will make up for not being in the path of entire totality by sending observers to Nantucket, New London, Middletown, Poughkeepsie, and Buffalo. In addition the Cambridge station of the Observatory will carry out a special series of observations...
...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...
...vacation, have gone home for the holiday. Those who live too far were invited in friendly families, parties were given them; on Christmas eve, about three hundred were at President Lowell's party, on Christmas evening, the Phillips Brooks House gave an entertainment, some kind people made a special point to invite the foreign students, churches and societies had Christmas parties for all young and old. In short there has been a chance for almost all to enjoy Christmas...