Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ninth grade, the first topic considered is the formation of the earth, and various concepts, like those of LaPlace and Jeans, are dealt with. While the subject is not exhausted, the general idea is left of a mass of gas contracting to form the solar system...
...moon, learning how it travels about the earth and why its orbit takes an elliptical shape. This leads to a study of Kepler's Law and its application to the orbits of artificial satellites. From here on it is only a few steps to the concepts of gravity, mass, and specific gravity...
...excused his generation's apathy toward mass demonstration on the grounds that contemporary college students tend to see that complicated problems cannot be solved by parades and placards. Clymer concluded that it is too early to evaluate the worth of today's graduates, just as their parents' generation could not be judged by "the goldfish they gulped...
...Harvard Debate Council was busy in March, when it sponsored a mass meeting in the Union on the always engaging topic of prohibition. Five hundred students were present; only ten favored retaining the 18th Amendment...
...Charles Townsend Copeland, the beloved Copey, was moving from his Hollis 15 suite to a new home on Concord Avenue in Cambridge. At the age of seventy-two, the man who had read his way4When the Class of 1933 entered Harvard, the wing was being added to the sprawling mass in the North Yard that is Langdell Hall, making it the largest law library in the world. Twenty-five years later, Langdell is again becoming possessed of an addition: this time the International Legal Studies Center, an architect's sketch of which is shown above...