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...conditions of the air and also from a large amount of practical experience in ballooning. He was in the German balloon "Pommern" which last year won the international long distance race from St. Louis, landing at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and it was said that this remarkable flight was due in large measure to Mr. Clayton's intimate knowledge of the upper air currents. His experience thus has been practical as well as theoretical and his observations on "Navigating the Air" will be of great interest to all those who appreciate the remarkable advances made in this epoch-making adventure...
...contemplated, and continued a week, with a moderate number of workmen. It began again on May 22 with a small force and lasted for two weeks. The excavations began a third time, with a large force, on July 11, and continued until August 21. The first two interruptions were due to local difficulties, which fortunately did not occur during the third period of work...
...root of the trouble seems to lie in the light regard in which some men hold the fall rowing. This part of the rowing system, one of the strongest features of our athletics, due to the splendid sport it provides for an increasingly large number of students, is at the same time essentially a part of the general scheme of developing the University eight. The crews in the bumping races are carefully watched by the crew management and promising material is taken up to the University squad after the graded crew races. At the same time, it is regarded...
...Freshman football team will open its season this afternoon with Groton School at Groton. The team has had only a little over a week's practice and is consequently in a very unsettled condition, due also to the large number of candidates that have to be tried out before the best team can be chosen. Grobon has a fast team this year as usual, and has had much more time in which to organize it. They have won from the Freshman teams of the last two years, and are the favorites in today's game...
...congratulate the management of Memorial Hall on the greatly increased membership list of the Association, due chiefly to their efforts in providing a scheme for transients. The new method by which a transient member pays only for what he wants has brought 400 such members to the Hall and placed the total membership at 1250, the highest figure in several years...