Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phoebus gilds the spines of Gore Hall, the morning air will be shattered by the infantile cries of the Senior class en route to the annual Senior Debauch and Clam Bake. Peddock's Island, where the Picnic was to have been held, went Prohibition when the plans were known, but Riverside opened welcome arms...
...throughout is of spruce, hollowed for lightness and laminated for strength. The weight of the framework is about 150 pounds, and of the engine and propellor 200 pounds, making the total weight of machine and operator about 525 pounds, the lightest biplane ever built. The engine is four-cylinder, air-cooled, and will develop 30 horsepower...
...sonnets on Don Juan which echo the music of an earlier time; Mr. Miller a moving threnody; Mr. Reed a poem not quite big enough for its language, but showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest the attention of any reader by the size of its conception and the telling choice of its words. It is awkward in part of the first stanza, but on the whole skilful verse as well as strong...
...McKim Garrison prize must hand in their manuscripts at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, University 20, before 5 o'clock today. The prize, which consists of $100 and a silver medal, will be awarded this year for the best poem submitted on "The Conquest of the Air" or "Harvard College...
...solid celluloid dome will be prepared to dodge anything short of bombs. There will be no admission charged to the sideshows, but qualifiers in the various contests will be awarded free tickets to the most astounding array of freaks that ever tripped the timbers. On the big, free, open-air stage will take place a number of specialties for which Europe, Asia, Africa and Providence have been ransacked...