Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal, N. J., the 38-room summer home of 77-year-old William Crapo Durant ("Godfather of the Motor Car Industry," "Gunga Din of Wall St.") was put up for auction with its furnishings. A Kermanshah rug appraised at $6,000 went for $750, a $6,500 tapestry for $275, the $500,000 house itself...
Looked at a different way, this is the 301st year of the University, since the College did not begin to function until the summer...
First Freshman in Summer...
Nathaniel Eaton, a Cambridge alumnus, was secured as Professor, and some time in the summer of 1638 he moved to Cambridge and received the first Freshmen. The site of this earliest college building, now covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees...
...know how many Freshmen entered in the summer of 1638, but nine graduated in 1642. The most famous in this Class was Sir George Downing, who became English ambassador to the Netherlands, and after whom Downing Street, London, is named. A majority of the early Harvard classes returned to England for jobs; most of the rest became clergymen in New England...