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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American Flying Club, will be the principal speaker at this meeting. Mr. Driggs has been a close student of flying conditions during the war, and has written several articles on these conditions. The second speaker will be Colonel L. H. Drennan, who addressed the Harvard Aeronautical Society several days ago. Colonel Drennan is Air Service officer for New England and is a member, exofficio, of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Aero Club. The members of the Harvard Aero Club will meet at a place to be announced tomorrow, and will go to this meeting in a body...
...college singing in Cambridge will be so clearly illustrated. Boston has always owed much to Harvard for its best music. The Harvard Musical Association, founded by Harvard men who wanted to preserve the musical interests which the Pierian Sodality had awakened in them, established more than fifty years ago the orchestral concerts to which, in a natural sequence, the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra succeeded in 1881. These influences, now for many decades, have been the strongholds of good music in Boston...
Football, the most strenuous of American out-door sports, claimed five victims during the 1919 season. The number of deaths--the smallest in years--was five less than in 1918, and seven under the toll of two years ago. There were 18 lives lost during the 1916 season...
Development of the open style of play to supplant the dangerous smashing game, is mainly responsible for the decreasing number of fatalities in the opinion of football experts. The dangers of a dozen years ago, when the old style smashing game included hurdling, flying tackles, and vicious offensive tactics, have been almost entirely eliminated in the new style of football...
Lieutenant L'Huillier, who gave an interesting address before the Cercle Francais two weeks ago, is military attache with the French Embassy at Washington, and he speaks, not only as a soldier of France, but as a graduate of the Universities of Paris and Dijon, speaking to fellow University...