Word: consistency
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile run has been added to the list of events for the fall open handicap track meet which will take place at Soldiers Field Thursday at 4 o'clock, it was learned yesterday from Field Event Coach Farrell. As now planned the meet will consist of the following events: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, mile run, two-mile run, 120-yard high hurdles and 220-yard low hurdles. The field events will not take place until late in September after the close of the football and crew seasons...
...first opportunity for Freshmen to compete for the business board of the Harvard Lampoon, and the last for Juniors will be offered tonight when the second business competition of the year begins in the Lampoon building at 7 o'clock. The work of the competition will consist chiefly of obtaining subsriptions and advertisements for the Lampoon. J. McR. Kimball '24, who will be in charge of the competition, will explain its details this evening...
...experiment proves successful on this scale, larger apparatus will be set up in a field at least a quarter of a mile square, to make possible more accurate results. The experiments have to do with rays of light thrown through the large tube. Light is believed to consist of ether waves. When a body moves through a medium which is itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current. If the medium is still, it moves past the moving body...
...biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about .0012 of an inch a second. In proportion to size, this would mean a speed of more than a mile a minute...
Although the address of Professor Hudson is to be the sole feature of the first sitting on October 23, the subsequent meetings will consist of general discussions of various set topics...