Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...emphasizing the importance of a knowledge of meteorology on the part of those whose business it is to sail through the ocean of air. This ocean has its tides; its currents; its waves. It is beginning to be charted, but only just beginning. The late Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, which he left to Harvard, with an endowment, in his will, was a pioneer in charting the atmosphere. Shortly before his death, Professor Rotch published his "Charts of the Atmosphere for Aeronauts and Aviators." This volume presents, in a practical form, some...
Fifty-nine members of the Freshman class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1917-1918. These awards represent part of an annual appropriation of $16,000, given to the University by the bequest of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf, of Quincy, who is also the founder of ten Price Greenleaf scholarships...
...three awards of $25, $15 and $10 respectively will be presented to the best speakers by Dr. Francis Henry Wade, the founder of the prizes...
...Church, New York, to give the Dudleian lecture for the current academic year. The lecture will be given in the New Lecture Hall, Tuesday evening, April 3, at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the public. The subject is the first of the series prescribed by its founder, Judge Paul Dudley in 1750, namely, "Natural Religion...
...Skeffington has received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Dublin and she has also studied at the Sorbonne and at several German universities. She is the founder of the Irish Women's Suffrage League, and in 1915 she was a delegate of the Women's Peace Party at the Hague. Her husband was killed in the recent revolution in Dublin, of which she will speak, and she is at present editing the paper of which he was formerly the editor. As an authority on the social and political disturbances in Ireland, Mrs. Skeffington has recently been...