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...people of the nation are tired of parliamentary bickerings and talk; the sentiment everywhere today is "get the Treaty through." Saturday was marked by a declaration of peace by the other great belligerent nations. We, as a country, are left dangling in mid-air. A tremendous majority for Proposition 4, as submitted on the ballot, alone can show that college men have appreciated the issue. They must not fail...
...circling back of the net, passed the puck out to MacColl, who drove it past Carnochan for the second score. Princeton's next goal resulted from a fluke, when Kuhn lifted a long shot from the centre of the rink and Willetts, attempting to stop the puck in mid-air, deflected its course so that it bounded into the Harvard net. In the last minute of the period Phillips scored from a scrimmage in front of the Princeton goal...
...Society was delivered last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room by Mr. A. A. Merrill, lecturer on aeronautics for the Boston Y. M. C. A. His topic was "The Principles of Mechanical Flight" and the lecture was illustrated with excellent views of the Wright, Curtiss and Bleriot machines in mid-air...
Stability is of two kinds: transverse and fore and aft. The aeroplane in mid-air has two forces acting on it besides that of gravity, a tendency to turn over sideways and a tendency to pitch either backward or forward. To counteract the former, and thus gain transverse stability, the Wrights warp the ends of their planes in such a way as to apply a downward force on the elevated side. To minimize the danger of pitching forward and thus gain fore and aft stability, the horizontal rudder, rigged either in front or behind the machine, is the most effective...
...dumbbell, which had a curved bar between the round ends, and of which the dumbbell in use at the present day is an imitation; second, the half of a flattened disk, with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus. By the aid of these weights tremendous distances were covered; for instance, Herodotus tells a little story of a certain Greek who had a record of fifty-five feet; and this statement is probably true, for they loosened the ground to a distance...