Word: explains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...asked relating to his lectures. Mr. MacKaye has not answered questions at the end of each separate lecture but asked that any of his audience who wished to question him would wait until after the last lecture. At the meeting this afternoon he will be prepared to explain any difficulties that may have arisen in the minds of any of his hearers during the course...
During the four more lectures that Mr. MacKaye will give, he will explain how scientific or, as he calls them, common sense methods may be adapted to the creation of an ethical system. This type of work that he has undertaken he calls "Political Engineering" or the science which treats of the adaptation of the means of society...
After demonstrating the principles of soaring, by blackboard diagrams, Mr. Merrill went on to explain the present weakness of the aeroplane, namely, the engine. It is the inefficiency of the motive power which has and still does limit the range and speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable...
...candidates for the University and Freshman hockey teams will meet at 7 Holyoke Place this evening at 7 o'clock. The plans for the coming season will be outlined by Captain S. T. Hicks '10, and trainer W. E. Quinn will explain the system of coaching and training. It is necessary that all who expect to go out for the hockey teams this winter be present at this meeting in order that, as soon as the weather permits, they may be ready to start the regular practice at short notice...
...every year by a select body of men. Some few use it regularly without being members, though every means is taken to prevent it. The rest use it once in a while; and both seem to think it a joke, or think nothing about it. But mere thoughtlessness cannot explain it away, nor can it be given as an excuse." These men should be reached by Mr. Lunt's summing up of a true and remarkably well-written article--by the final paragraph in which he suggests that an attempt should be made to realize what Harvard would be today...