Word: helm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dirigible balloon--one answering the helm--was an idea from the very first, yet all attempts to steer a balloon were practically unsuccessful until 1884. Since then many types have been invented, all having the general shape of a fish, the most notable of which is that invented by Zeppelin. They have been brought to a great degree of perfection but have the one great fault that they are practically useless in a high wind...
Although we have been made to realize several times this spring that President Eliot's term was rapidly drawing to an end, we can hardly believe that the event has taken place. But today there is a new hand at the helm, and the man who has had the control of affairs at Harvard for forty years has given up his active work. So much has been said of President Eliot in the last few months that we are appalled at the task of trying to express our opinion of him in anything like original words. Public officials here...
...Henry Helm Clayton of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory gave a very interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last night, on "Navigating the Air." The lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern-slides showing the growth of the balloon and illustrating the topics on which the lecturer spoke...
...Henry Helm Clayton of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory will speak on "Navigating the Air," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...unfinished games of the Harvard-Yale dual chess match, held in the Union November 22, have been adjudicated by Mr. Herman Helm of New York, editor of the American Chess Bulletin. According to Mr. Helm's decision. K. S. Johnson 1G. won his game from E. B. Burgess, and E. R. Brown '09 lost to Chandler. The final score thus stands: Harvard, 6; Yale...