Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program consists of the following features: first, "The World's Record Altitude Flight," illustrated by motion pictures; second, a talk on "The Moss Airplane Motor Supercharger," by Dr. S. A. Moss, of the General Electric Company, Lynn, inventor of the supercharger; third, a talk on the "Organization of the First Aero Unit of the Massachusetts National Guard," by Major James Knowles Jr., the commanding officer of the Unit. There will be in addition general aeronautical moving pictures...
...that is ended. When the lecturer finds himself talking into thin air, he has but to throw a switch, and behold! the New Lecture Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive...
Certain men in different colleges have shown such inquisitive activity, and the result is literary explosions on the part of various moss backs the country over. These explosions are not only unnecessary but they are premature. If the college radical bodies are planning anarchy then something must be done. If they are meeting merely to discuss the various aspects of the radical movement they are only doing intelligent citizen's duty. If the great body of students shows total unconcern toward the whole question--as is nearer the true situation--colleges are, in fact, far from hot beds of radicalism...
...week after the Intercollegiates, a combined team of Oxford and Cambridge will oppose the University and Yale. There will be three men from each college on the teams, with Duane, Feibleman and Fenno representing the Crimson, and Williams, Bundy and Moss the probable Eli selections. No definite date has been made for the match, which will be played at either Newport or Longwood, but it will be about July 6. Final arrangements have not yet been completed...
Acting: George Moss Kendall '24, of Bridgewater; William Chapin Jackson '22. of Darien, Conn.; and Randal Cayford Burrell Unc., of Newton...