Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night at the Boston Square and Compass Club, the Harvard University Orchestra, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24, will give its second concert of the season. This concert, the only one during the reading period, marks the first appearance of the college year for the entire orchestra, the concert at Dunster House before the Christmas recess having been given by the string section only...
...program to be played at the Boston Square and Compass Club...
More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...
...have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...
...Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened...