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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate, Bassett was engaged in many student activities. He was captain of the crew in his freshman year, and in his sophomore year was elected President of his class. He served on the Student Council from 1922 to 1925 and in his last year was on the Senior Endowment Committee and was elected Second Marshal of his class. Throughout his college career Bassett was interested in the work of the Philips Brooks House. He served on a number of its committees and in his senior year he was elected President of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASSETT IS NAMED NEW TREASURER OF P.B.H. COMMITTEE | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...what degree. 3) Barometric altimeter showed to within a very few feet how far above the ground of a particular field, in this case Mitchel Field, the plane was at all times. Because the action of this altimeter depends upon barometric pressure, a variable factor, a ground crew was obliged to radiophone Lieut. Doolittle air pressure conditions. In development are more independent instruments, the sonic altimeter by Dr. Elmer Sperry and the radio altimeter by General Electric Co. They will sensitively record the time and therefore the distance which a sound or radio impulse travels from a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blind Flying Accomplished | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

According to figures given out by the Department of Physical Education at Wadsworth House, tennis has displaced crew as the most popular Freshman sport. Although there are 208 candidates for crew positions this year, an increase of one over 1928 and 11 over 1927, tennis has gained 31 in the last two years to take top honors with 214 candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Succeeds Crew as Most Popular Freshman Sport, Physical Education Figures Reveal--Football Comes Third | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Singles as a form of exercise has regained its former position of fourth in popularity by attracting 62 candidates, which number, although less than last year and the year before, holds its place because of the decline in popularity of track, which last fall 'crew the unusually large squad of 83 candidates, as compared with 49 of the Class of 1933, and 47 of 1931 in its Freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Succeeds Crew as Most Popular Freshman Sport, Physical Education Figures Reveal--Football Comes Third | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

There are eight class crews working out, four under the direction of Coach Haines and four under the guidance of Coach E. J. Brown '96. These crews are made up of all the heavy oarsmen who will be candidates for the University crew in the spring. There are also six lightweight eights being tutored by F. R. Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLEET OF EIGHTEEN SHELLS WORKING OUT ON CHARLES | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

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