Commenting on the nation’s baseball players’ strike, a reader wrote a letter applauding it. He said the strike showed that Americans can live without baseball, and observed that the strike gave people the opportunity to view a greater variety of professional and amateur sports “that have been ignored by excessive media coverage of baseball” which had to be endured by those “not infected with baseball fever.”
The school superintendent told the School Committee that energy-saving changes to the Bromfield School would be delayed, due to the expected late arrival of triple thermal pane windows.
Playing at the movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman II, Cannonball Run
A six-month analysis of Fire Department operations, which included scrutiny of the part-time fire chief’s daily log, concluded that the town didn’t need a full-time chief yet, “thanks to a spirit of volunteerism and goodwill.” One selectman observed that Harvard was at a crossroads and that in the future, as the town grows, “may have to consider other creative solutions, such as job sharing between area towns.”
An editorial said that the omission of the reading of the Declaration of Independence during the Fourth of July festivities was sad, because it was a custom that helped remind people what the Fourth is all about. The writer commented that during the festivities a young woman was heard to ask, “How did the Fourth of July start, anyway? What does it commemorate? I forget.”
Playing at the movies: The Lion King
Based on reports in the old Harvard Post.