Word: expert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...fall practice will be issued within a week and at that time all men who expect to come out next spring should report, except those who are playing football. Freshmen also are eligible to take part in the practice and should avail themselves of this opportunity to get expert coaching with the University players. The season will last as long as the weather permits and a team usually known as the "Harvard Rovers" will be formed, which will play a schedule of two or three games a week with various nines in the vicinity...
...their blood to be taken. The proceeding is without danger. All persons who are willing to aid in this way may call at any time at the Harvard Medical School Administration Building, Huntington avenue, and make inquiry for the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission. If this is not convenient, an expert will visit the home for the purpose of collecting the blood serum...
...Physicians, by telephoning to the Medical School, may obtain an expert in any hour of the day or night, who will visit a patient with the doctor to assist in the diagnosis of the case, and to administer serum if desired. The amount of serum available will depend upon the response of recovered patients to this appeal for volunteers. As the response cannot now be accurately estimated, the efforts of the Commission will at the beginning be confined to cases in or near Boston. Should it be found possible to extend the service, every attempt will be made...
...Certainly, he has the material to work with. In Driggs he has a punter good for any distance up to sixty yards, and a man who showed late last season that he knows how to turn the ends. In Tibbott he has a dangerous open field-runner and an expert drop-kicker. In Moore he has a fast, elusive back. We shall see Princeton this year making a lot of use of her backfield in the way of returning kick-offs. The Tigers last season showed a very interesting protective system for a man coming back with a placement kick...