Word: planting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the New Lecture Hall is heated by an individual heating plant, it is natural that the building should be the first of the University buildings to be closed in order to save fuel. Most of the buildings belonging to the College are heated from the power plant opposite the Weld Boathouse, and, accordingly, no appreciable amount of fuel can be saved by shutting off the heat sent into any one building...
Unlike a first-class flivver, speed is to be the prime requisite, for to catch the elusive U-boat one must be able to sail circles around it. As is to be expected, comfort will not be found in anything built at the Ford plant. Much less will Wilhelm II rejoice at the thought of these pests among his imperial submersibles, for he can no longer rest assured of his weekly and ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more...
...done then would merely have been shunted onto the other five days and we should have gained nothing. As far as saving fuel is concerned the Monday-vacation scheme would have been of no avail. The Yard, as we understand, is heated by excess steam from the Cambridge Power Plant, which would have to keep open anyway. We would have saved nothing there. Dormitories would necessarily be open and light and heat would be used as on other days...
...weekly meetings of the Aeronautical Society were resumed last evening when the society discussed balloons and their uses in the present war. A. H. Andrews '20, who has had experience with the balloon department of the Goodyear aviation plant at Akron, Ohio, spoke upon the construction and operation of military airships and the uses of the aerostatics or balloon type of aircraft...
...next meeting of the society will deal with the construction of airplanes. E. P. Warner, an instructor at Technology, will speak upon this subject, and at future meetings engineers from the Burgess plant will explain problems of aircraft construction...