Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Aeronautical Society announces that Mr. Charles J. Glidden, the well-known aeronaut, will deliver an illustrated lecture this evening at 9 o'clock at the Boston 1915 Exposition on "The A. B. C. of Ballooning." All men in the University interested in aeronautics are cordially invited to attend. Admittance to the lecture will be free upon payment of 25 cents as general admission to the Exposition...
...Merrill concluded his lecture by quoting at length from a pamphlet by Hiram Maxim, the well-known authority on military aeronautics. Mr. Maxim's opinion is that the development of aerial navigation will lesson the chances of war in that nothing save subterraneous works will be free from the bombs dropped by aeroplanes...
...this rink, to be known as The Boston Arena, special arrangements have been made to accommodate spectators and players in the intercollegiate hockey games. Seats, arranged in the arena pit form, will provide for about 5,000 spectators. Under the seats 16 locker-rooms with shower baths have been set aside for the players, and the ice surface, 90 by 250 feet, will afford a hockey rink much larger than that in the St. Nicholas Rink in New York...
...Faculty, the weekly vesper services in Appleton Chapel will be omitted in the current academic year. For many years past it has been customary to hold vesper services on Thursday afternoons between Thanksgiving and Easter. The service consisted of a musical program and a short address by a well-known preacher. Whether the lack of such a service will be felt keenly enough to warrant its re-installment another year cannot now be foretold...
...figure of the man whose dying legacy to posterity included nothing which will last as long or be known as widely as his name is one of the least distinct of those which stand out in our colonial history. Almost all that we known of him is that in a time when the attention of most men was centred on the material things of life he saw the coming need of educated men who should be ready to replace the then leaders of the people, and for the satisfaction of that need he gave his money and his books--small...