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...curriculum of the first year includes floor and aerial acrobatics, gymnastic exercises on cross bars, trapeze, rope-walking, bicycle riding, and many other specialties...
...sparrows. One afternoon someone noticed the two hawks hovering over the spot, stopped to watch them swoop and kill. Next afternoon the hawks came to hunt again. More people stopped to watch. Before long three traffic policemen were needed to handle the hundreds who gathered daily to watch the aerial raids. Because the hawks always came at about 5:15 p. m. a merchant got the idea of starting a daily pool based on the fractional minute of the birds' appearance. Soon everyone from Mayor J. W. Kapp Jr. down was buying tickets...
Captain Reeves is one of the four officers of the Army Air Service who are on special leave from Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, in order to assist in Geography 36, the new course in aerial photography which is being given at Harvard this half year. During his 16 years in the Army he has devoted himself to this study and his book, "Aerial Photographs" is regarded as one of the standard works on the subject...
This evening's lecture will be the second in a series of four free public talks which have been arranged in connection with Geography 36. Last month Captain A. W. Stevens spoke, his subject being "Over Two Continents with an Aerial Camera." The remaining public lectures will be "Mapping the Earth from the Air," by Captain B. C. Hill, on Wednesday, March 22, and "From the Log of a Flying Photographer" by Lieutenant J. F. Phillips, on Wednesday, April...
...Many present developments in aviation," Stevens went on, "are along the lines of industrial and governmental usefulness; for instance, the work in my department is saving great expense of time and labor in assisting governmental survey work. Aerial photography cuts down tremendously the time in which a given project may be accomplished. It has recently been used by the Air Corps of Engineers for a canal across the State of Florida, saving many months in making a decision as to the best practical location of the waterway. There are three departments of the government engaged i n the preparation...