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...addition, the society has arranged for a series of lectures to be given this winter by prominent scientific men in the University. Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99 will speak on "Movements of Solids Through Liquids"; Professor A. L. Rotch h.'91 will deliver at least one lecture on "Physics of the Air," and Professor R. W. Willson '73 has consented to talk on aeronautical problems of navigation in connection with astronomy...
...following officers were elected: President, Professor A. L. Rotch '91: vice-president, H. Nawn '10; secretary. E. C. Brown '12; treasurer, A. Sweetser '11. The executive committee will be composed of R. L. Groves '10, T. H. McKittrick, Jr., '11, J. V. Martin uC., W. R. Strong '10, and H. deWindt '12. The advisory board is as follows: Professor L. S. Marks, Assistant Professor W. H. Pickering, and Assistant Professor F. L. Kennedy...
...current periodicals, will be secured in one of the Yard dormitories. Two distinct courses of lectures will be given; one on popular subjects, by well known navigators such as Herring, Curtiss, and Cody, and the other on the more technical phases of aerial navigation by Professors A. C. Rotch, I. N. Hollis '99, and others. A special lecture, illustrated by 3,000 feet of areoplane flight pictures, will be given in the latter part of this month...
...closing, Professor Rotch said that it was not safe to prophesy as to the future, but this might be said, that neither the dirigible balloon nor the aeroplane will ever supplant our present means of transportation...
Professor A. Lawrence Rotch h.'91 delivered an illustrated lecture on "Aerial Navigation" in the Living Room of the Union last night. A large audience enjoyed his talk and the interesting views of balloons and aeroplanes which were shown. Professor Rotch prophesied the success of the aeroplane over the dirigible balloon as a means of aerial navigation in the future...