Word: late
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There is no need of 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...
...students would work harder "because of the war," dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart. But we all know that it is not often so. The storekeeper is uncertain with his deliveries "because of the war"; the factory charges higher prices for shoddy materials, the clerk is late to the office, the telephone or janitor service is poor "because of the war." It is such an excuse for slackness as slackness has not had in nearly two generations. Because a great burden is laid upon the nation, millions of people feel they can roll various private burdens...
...present it is planned to have the Freshmen coached by upperclassmen. Inter-battalion soccer is also considered as a possibility during the rest of the season. It is felt that this is the only minor sport that can be sufficiently organized among the battalions this fall because of the late date at which the permanent composition of the battalions will be settled. A round robin tournament for the military teams will be held to determine the championship of the regiment...
...buildings are the gift of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness of New York City, in memory of her son, the late Charles W. Harkness, Yale 1883. Edward S. Harkness, the other son, who took part in the exercises, is a Yale graduate or the class...
...memorial biographical sketch of the late Charles W. Harkness was given by Horace D. Taft, principal of the Taft School at Watertown, Conn., a classmate of Charles W. Harkness and secretary of the Yale class of 1883. Members of the class were especially invited guests at the laying of the corner-stone, the other guests including members of the Yale Corporation, Mayor Campner, Mayor elect Fitzgerald and other city officials of New Haven, members of the committee on plans for university development, deans and directors of the various schools at Yale, and professors in Yale...