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Most positive proponent of the gliding theory is University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, who published his observations in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1935. He testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average...
Recipients are Peter B. Olney '37, captain of the boxing team; Ernest A. Gray, Jr. '37, captain, and Leavitt S. White '37, of the basketball team; A. Townsend Winmill '37, captain of the polo team; W. Brooks Cavin, Jr. '37, captain, and Gerard J. Piel '37, of the wrestling team; and Richard M. Dorson '37, captain of the squash team, who gains his for winning the national intercollegiate title...
After lengthy discussion, with Leavitt S. White '37 and Joseph Kennedy, Jr. '38 dissenting, the Council decided that no suggestion of a breach of academic freedom could be entertained but that the dismissal of Sweezy and Walsh does give rise to serious problems of interest to the undergraduate, problems which should be investigated an reported upon either this spring or next year...
Twenty men from a field of 31 speakers qualified in the first Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate trails and preliminary Coolidge Prize competition held last night in the Lowell House Common Room. The list of the successful qualifiers is posted at Leavitt & Peirce...
...March 9-10, 1937.) For Secretary: (1) Robert Crossett Holcombe 102 Charles Wells Hubbard, 3rd 89 George Gordon Hedblom 85 William John Watt 82 George Franklin Mahoney 69 Dunbar Carpenter 55 Robert Edward Purdy 30 For Permanent Class Committee (6) Malcolm Bodwell McTernen, Jr. 302 Charles Colmery Gibson 279 Leavitt Sargent White 267 Rolf Kaltenborn 208 Peter Hobart Knapp 170 Perry James Culver 165 Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr. 153 James Arnott Elliott Wood 151 Walter Hines Page, 2nd 148 Curtis Prout 146 Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr. 138 William Bernard Berssenbrugge 132 Edward Lorraine Young, 3rd 125 Charles Wheeler O'Conor...