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Until that time, no one had ever heard of a society giving degrees. The next move was to make the Annex a college. This happened in 1894. The Massachusetts General Court approved a charter for Radcliffe College, named after Ann Radcliffe, Harvard's first woman benefactor. This charter contained a provision that it could award no degrees "except with the approval of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
Although daily mundane tasks make up most of work, the staff does get interesting assignments. During Commencement week, for example, College officials annually begin wondering about weather. And, Brooks reports, it is touch and go. One year, seeing an ominously heavy storm building up over Jamaica Plain, he examined the prevailing wind direction and advised Class Committeemen to move the senior spread indoors. When the wind changed, bringing the rain to Blue Hill instead of Cambridge, Brooks expected complaints. He got compliments instead; another storm that he could not see had moved in from the north and soaked the Yard...
With their radio contact the two staffs can correlate all findings and make accurate predictions for the entire White Mountain area. Blue Hill's height makes it sometimes more reliable--at least it can see farther--than the lower nearby U.S. station...
...proposed to turn the Yard into a pristine monument, with its broad blotches of green unmarred by any students or local citizens resting comfortably. And over it all will be heard the lament of petty police authority: "I don't make the rules; I just carry them...
They started to make trips to the Savoy on Massachusetts Avenue to listen to trumpeter "Red" Allen and the Searsdale (New York) High School sensation, clarinetist Bob Wilbur. After a time, when they became known at the Savoy, they woud climb up on the stand and take over the nightclub...