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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Humphries, a graduate of the International Y. M. C. A. Training College, spent eleven months in Russia during the past year and a half, and worked with the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross...
...lecture, "Eleven Months in Soviet Russia" which includes 95 slides, has been enthusiastically received in over two hundred cities of the country, in which he has been lecturing during the past few months. It will be remembered that Mr. Humphries spoke at a mass meeting last month with Professor Felix Frankfurter '06 and Colonel Raymond Robbins. The lecture on Wednesday is open without charge exclusively to members of the University...
...bullet were shot past the sun and at the same distance away from it as the light-rays, the force of gravitation of the sun would deflect it only eight-tenths of a second. Something, therefore, deflected the light rays more than twice as much as gravity could bend them. This is all explained in the theory itself, but it requires the use of a fourth dimension...
...Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Society will outline their plans for the coming season, which, is it expected, will be much more comprehensive than those of past years. Interest in aviation has been growing in Massachusetts, and the club expects to carry on a series of trials and experiments throughout the year to determine the worth of the different types of airplanes and to develop new features...
...Solving the Riddle of the Universe" should be the title of the work that has been going on for the past thirty years in the University Observatory. Night after night and year after year, without ostentation or public applause, the astronomers have been combing the heavens, searching among the millions of other worlds, their sole purpose being to add to the sum of human knowledge. Of all the new stars discovered since 1886, Harvard has the honor of claiming seventy per cent...