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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...monoplane machines, and have finished acrobatics. Some sensations! The vrille or spinning nose dive, where the machine falls perpendicularly, spinning around, its longitudinal axis as it falls; the renversement where you give a jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn the machine on its side till the wings are vertical and just plain fall without any supporting surface. It is the quickest way to lose altitude and you certainly...
...allowed, if the competitors have recently passed their strength tests. As it was impossible to use the board track, the field events which might have been run in the cage were also deferred, and will all take place today. The high and broad jumps, which were to have come on the second day of the carnival, will be on this afternoon's program, as will also as many of the handicap events as there is time for. Whatever numbers cannot for lack of time be run today will take place next week on a day to be announced later...
...preliminary meeting of participants will be held in Harvard 5 on Monday evening, March 11, and preliminary trials for selecting final speakers will come on Monday evening, March...
...Archbishop of York, who is to preach in Sanders Theatre next Sunday morning, is recognized in England as a statesman and strong speaker. He has come to this country for a few weeks in order to help bind England and the United States more closely through mutual understanding, that we may fight the common enemy with greater power. He has had responsible positions in the University of Oxford, and has asked that as he passes through this country he may see something of the leading universities and have an opportunity to speak to the students. This is his only opportunity...
...maintain the principle that they as yet lack the good faith which is so essential to the final settlement. Yet it seems that such an intolerant attitude is the blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching for a change in the feeling of their people can we come to an understanding. How else is peace ever to be attained? Though we may find reason to doubt the integrity of their government, we may be generous enough to meet them half...