Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor A. L. Bailey G '88, senior member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy since 1912, who has been in charge of the station at Arequipa, Peru, for the past two years, will speak tonight at the college observatory from 7.30 to 9 o'clock on "Harvard Observatories in Chile and Peru." Admission is by ticket only...
Future birdmen among members of the University have an opportunity to receive their training by entrapment student aviators at the Naval Redcliffe Air Station at Squantum. Admission R. de Steigner, Commandant the First Naval District has announced that a class of 20 college graduates and undergraduates, in which several vacancies will be held for Harvard representatives, is now being formed to receive flying instruction...
Close on the heels of the Bok Peace Plan, pacifism, and Sir Harry Lauder's plea for international friendship comes the opportunity to prepare for war in the offer made to undergraduates by the naval flying station at Squantum. That it is a generous offer there is no denying. It is also a wise one, from the point of view of preparedness. It aims to fit educated men as officers, and this can do the service no harm. It was only too obvious during the war that it was as impossible to make gentlemen by Act of Congress...
...stingier stated, and will be held at the Massechusetts Institute of Technology, on Tuesday and Thursday of even Professor E. P. Warner '16 the areonautical department of M. R. T. and officers of United States Navy will give the instruction, while Lieutenant George R. Pond, commanding officer of the station at Squantum will be in charge of the school. Students may choose between an early spring and a summer class in flight...
...Harvard Observatory has been located at Chuquicamata, Chile, about twenty miles from the Smithsonian station, and at an altitude of between seven and eight thousand feet. The region is practically rainless, and the available records indicate long seasons of cloudless skies...