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...society, to be known as the Harvard Aeronautical Society, has been organized, with the purpose of rendering accessible to Harvard students information about flights, and of giving opportunity for experimental work under the supervision of the Astronomical and Engineering Faculties. The experimenting groups will attempt to construct some full-sized gliding machines...
Club rooms, furnished with models of aeroplanes and dirigibles, and containing an aero library, besides all the current periodicals, will be secured in one of the Yard dormitories. Two distinct courses of lectures will be given; one on popular subjects, by well known navigators such as Herring, Curtiss, and Cody, and the other on the more technical phases of aerial navigation by Professors A. C. Rotch, I. N. Hollis '99, and others. A special lecture, illustrated by 3,000 feet of areoplane flight pictures, will be given in the latter part of this month...
...engineering, taken by a large number of men, in which mechanical drawing forms the principal part of the work. Instead of marking the drawings by some common standard intelligible to the students, the instructors in these courses indicate their gradings by a series of cabalistic symbols, whose significance is known only to the instructors themselves. The students may learn their marks in February and June, but at other times not without considerable difficulty...
Professor Bedier is widely known for his work on the fabliaux, and has given special attention to the question of the formation of the old French epics. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College, and others interested in the subject...
Ground was broken Tuesday on St. Botolph street, Boston, for the construction of an enclosed skating rink, to be known as the Boston Arena. It is expected that the building will be up and the rink ready for use on January 1. If possible, arrangements will be made by the Harvard Athletic Association by which the University hockey team may use the rink for at least the more important home games. Two seventy-five ton refrigerating machines will supply ice under all conditions of weather. The building will have a seating capacity of five thousand...