Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Harvard's is the only observatory conducting an extensive study of Comet Cunningham, which was discovered here by Leland E. Cunningham this fall. Cunningham himself is organizing the observation program in collaboration with Fletcher Watson, executive secretary of the Observatory...
...France and Germany these days they are trying to receive the family with laws and slogans. "Travail, Famille, Patrie!" cries Marshal Petain. "Kinder, Kirche, Kuchen!" goes for the German hausfrau. Family sense has always been important in these countries, and they usually fall back upon it in a time of crisis, when it gives them strength...
Freshman intramural track finals will be run off this afternoon under a newly organized system dividing the Yard into three inclusive teams, North, South, and West. If the set-up proves successful, it will be used for crew races this spring and football games in the fall...
...Schedule for the coming year are an extensive study and report on some phase of Freshman activities a tea dance to be given on the week-end of the Yardling Jubillee, and Radcliffe Freshman dances next fall...
Forced to think about Percy Bysshe Shelley, most people visualize something with wild hair, wild eyes, a decollete shirt, poised to intone: "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover...