Word: givens
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...challenge trophy which is competed for each year, and the other is won outright by the Thayer crew. In 1906 and 1907, the first two years that the cups were offered, they were won by Claverly, and last year the Mt. Auburn street crew was victorious. The cups are given as a testimonial to O. D. Filley '06, who was captain of the University crew...
...second lecture, which is on "The Ear," will be given on Friday, and the others will come on the following Tuesdays and Fridays during the month...
...Joseph Mitchell Chapple, editor of the National Magazine, has been cancelled owing to the forced absence of Mr. Chapple. In his place Judge. William S. Bennet of the New York Municipal Court is expected to speak on "The Recent Political Campaign in New York." The lecture will be given in the Living Room at 8 o'clock and will be open only to members...
...first of a series of lectures to be given this winter under the auspices of the newly organized Harvard Aeronautical Society was delivered last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room by Mr. A. A. Merrill, lecturer on aeronautics for the Boston Y. M. C. A. His topic was "The Principles of Mechanical Flight" and the lecture was illustrated with excellent views of the Wright, Curtiss and Bleriot machines...
...method of the three employed to elevate a heavier-than-air machine. The other two the use of vertical screws and the oscillation of wings, involve almost insoluble questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem of stability which had hitherto impeded any practical progress in mechanical aviation. Mr. Merrill then showed stereopticon views...