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...news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...constitutes a reunion of the members of Phi Beta Kappa to make plans for the sesquicentennial next year. Important features of the progress of many of these gatherings will be addresses reviewing the history of the fraternity and reports of the progress made in raising the one hundred fiftieth Anniversary Endowment Fund, the most significant project initiated by the United Chapters in recent years...
...hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of the battle of Lexington and Concord which will be the gala event of the year in the town of Concord on April 20 will be participated in by many prominent members of the University. The names of Harvard men and indeed of the University itself are intimately connected with the memory of that year 1775 which is being feted...
...four-mile relay team will start off the season's schedule when it enters the relay meet at Concord on April 19. It will be the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord and it is possible that the University will have a look at the Dartmouth runners, who are schedule to compete in the affair. Six days later the relay men will journey to the Penn Relays for April 24 and 25 accompanied by a few individual entrants in other events...
...Briggs was born December 11, 1855, and graduated from Harvard in 1875. His college class will hold its fiftieth anniversary this June. In 1878 he entered the University Faculty as a tutor in prescribed Freshman Greek, in which capacity he continued for three years. Then, when professor A. S. Hill was forming the Department of English, Mr. Briggs took two years out for study and travel before joining the new department, where he has remained ever since without a sabbattical year. "Then," said the Dean with a smile, "I have just lived on up to the present...