Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This winter's program he asserted has been the most popular in the ten years of this feature, which includes popular lectures on astronomy and observations through the telescopes. These Open Nights are conducted by the Bond Astronomical Club, a local organization of amateur astronomers...
Astronomers lecturing for the Friday night series this winter have been Leo Goldberg, of New Bedford, a Bemis Fellow of the Harvard Observatory; Samuel L. Thorndike, Research Associate of the Observatory; Miss Francis Wright, Astronomical Assistant of Princeton University, now working at Harvard: Horace Taylor, of Brookline, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club: Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer of Harvard; Dr. Bart J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; Miss Edith Jones, of Waldron, Ind., second year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Miss Barbara Cherry, of West Roxbury, first year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Dantel Norman...
...plan is to go even further. Sometime in May the university will publish an extensive reading list in American history, economics, government, literature, and other phases of our national development. These lists of recommended books will be distributed to citizens throughout the country. Individual study will be supplemented next winter when a series of lectures on contemporary American problems and their relations to the past will be given by first-rank authorities from Harvard and other American universities. Both undergraduates and the public will be invited to attend these lectures, and later to measure their progress by taking examinations. Book...
...Undergraduate Athletic Council reached their decision unanimously at the Faculty Club. Ernest a. Gray, Jr. '37, captain of this year's team, quoted figures to prove the popularity of the sport and pointed out the advisability of the measure by claiming that 430 men participated in Basketball this winter in some form or another. He also announced an increase of 35 in candidates for the Varsity quintet since Harvard joined the League...
Although no schedule has been laid forth for the coming year, the new chairman declared that the committee will sponsor more dances, one during the football season, and at least one or two in the latter part of the winter session...