Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holding the anniversary celebration on Monday will break again the ol tradition of holding the meeting on Friday after Commencement. From thounding of the chapter in 1781 through 1911, the gatherings were held on Friday. From 1912 through 1922 the official date was set for Monday. Since then, Friday has been observed again but the conflict on this day with so many activities as well as the fact than it was the anticlimax, coming the day after Commencement, caused the change...
...will build a pipeline one mile long and three feet in diameter. From it he will exhaust the air, leaving a vacuum. In a vacuum it will not be necessary to make corrections for temperature, pressure and moisture, as it was in the open air. Once more he will set up his mirrors, allow a beam of light to make five round trips through the pipe and time it for the ten-mile trip...
...fuel gas to Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced by air without loss of weight...
...Hallowell '32 clipped 2 2-5 seconds from the mark set by Ripley of Dartmouth in the Stadium for the half mile. Hallowell's time was 1 minute, 56 4-5 seconds for the fastest 880 ever run at Exeter...
...will go into an intensive period of training for the next ten days prior to the departure for Red Top in about two weeks. Since the need for a stroke man is so pressing, it would not be surprising to see some hitherto unhalled oarsmen given an opportunity to set the beat. With P. H. Watts '31 a questionable factor when it comes to the endurance necessary for the long trial with Yale, and Swaim not showing the vital rythm a dark horse may walk off with the honors during the coming practice session...