Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loening, noted airplane designer and builder, announced in his speech to the convention that his proposed intercollegiate race has been indefinitely postponed. This, he said, was due to the fact that the Harvard Flying Club was the only organization which actually had a plane, and pilots sufficiently experienced to meet the necessary regulations...
...purpose of this meet is to promote cross country running as a competitive sport, and to provide a reward for college men who would otherwise have no opportunity to compete in intercollegiate cross country running. A cup for the winning team has been offered by D. F. O'Connell '21, former Harvard track captain, and medals will be given to those men taking the first ten places. Former college team members are not eligible...
...considering taking up this sport during the winter are requested to meet Coach Lewis at the Freshman track on Soldiers Field any day this week between 1.30 and 5 o'clock...
...chemical names for wood alcohol and grain ("pure") alcohol are methyl and ethyl respectively. Beverages, being luxuries, are scarcely ever duty-free. But industrialists demand a duty-free alcohol for commercial purposes. Wood alcohol was devised to meet this need. It is simply denaturized "pure" alcohol. Denaturization means the addition of a substance which renders the original unwholesome. The wood-spirit and other substances used in the making of wood alcohol are poisonous. Hearty drinkers of wood alcohol are killed by paralysis of the nervous system...
...years past it has been the custom, after Navy Games, to meet the returning team at the station. There is an old stage-coach at the Point that has a history. The Corps has always taken it to the station and drawn it back by hand laden with the battered team. The announcement of the new captain has always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time...