Word: plane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great 16th century master, Tintoretto, has just been placed on exhibition, as a loan, in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The picture, the subject of which is "Diana," comes close to the series of smaller mythological subjects, each with a few figures arranged in a single plane against a landscape background, the best known of which form the decoration of one of the rooms in the Ducal Palace in Venice. Like them, the picture at the Fogg Museum, although extremely simple in its expression, is masterly in design, and it exhibits the extraordinary skill in direct handling, which...
...Norman Prince '08, who is in the aviation of the French army, has twice been cited in dispatches. On the second occasion it was for bringing down single banded an enemy battle-plane. It was reported at one time that Prince had been taken prisoner by the Germans, but this was later denied...
Several books of mathematical interest are also announced, chief of which is a volume by Professor Maxime Bocher on "Plane Analytic Geometry, with Introductory chapters on the Differential Calculus...
...courses to be given this summer are Engineering Sciences 4a and 4d. The former extends for five weeks from June 26, and counts as a half-course. It will deal with the subjects of plane and topographic surveying, requiring a preparation in trigonometry and logarithms. Course 4d will follow 4a, beginning on July 30 and lasting for six weeks. It is a full course for which either Engineering Sciences 4a, or its equivalent, will be a necessary preparation. Course 4a and the first three weeks of course 4d, if both are taken in the same summer, may be counted...
Sparkling among the reforms for 1915-16 that ought to be seized and hoisted to a practical plane is that which calls for the substitution of electric vacuum cleaners for the brooms that have heretofore and hitherto been strangled in the grasp of the college goodies. A new broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner...