Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glider slope which Harvard graduates in Boston have provided for the meet has been completed and the Aeronautical Society, as well as the club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, already has a new glider of the Wright type in the hangar on the field. There is only one hangar completed thus far, but at the time of the meet there will be more to shelter the gliders of the universities which outer. While the meet is in progress it is probable that members of the aviation school conducted by W. Starling Burgess Co., of Marble head, will give short...
Preparations are being rapidly completed for the intercollegiate glider meet to be held at the Aviation Field, for four days, beginning May 3, under the auspices of the Harvard Areonautical Society. The Contest Committee has designed a unique artificial slope from which the flights will start. The slope will be movable, being mounted on 10-inch iron wheels, but will be blocked up previous to each day's events, facing the direction of the wind and in the spot most favorable for the contests. A car running on a six foot track will carry the gliders...
Harvard graduates in Boston have subscribed for the construction of an artificial glider slope about 40 feet high. From this the machines will be launched for flight. Work on it has already commenced. Besides two gliders the Harvard society will send down the Roe triplane. Several other colleges will also enter more than one machine...
...California, in 1875, and from the Hastings Law School in 1880. From 188 to 1894 he practiced law in Arizona, later moving to San Francisco. Since 1900 he has been the most prominent figure concerned in the fight for the abolition of bribery and graft on the Pacific Slope. He acted as attorney for the government in the Oregon land fraud cases, and later secured indictments against United States Attorney J. H. Hall, Senator Mitchell, G. C. Brownell, and others, for conspiring to protect guilty politicians. At this time he was serving as temporary district attorney in Oregon...
...later served as professor in various collegiate institutions. During this period the degrees of Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Laws were conferred upon him. In 1891 he became the first president of a university which stands pre-eminent among those of the Pacific Slope, a post which he still holds...