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...American institution of learning is a good deal more--or a good deal less--than a place to learn, in the scholastic sense. The most determined university president will perforce be satisfied to get a fair proportion of his populace, quality as well as quantity considered, into the main tent...
...these courses is $11 a week, except for Engineering 5b and 5e, for which the charge is $48 each. This fee includes board, lodging in a tent, laboratory, fees, and instruction. For the purpose of registration special cards have been provided, which can be obtained upon application at Pierce...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society will hold its second annual international aviation meet at the Harvard Aviation Field, Atlantic, from August 26 to September 4. Plans are now being drawn for a new grand stand, and the tent hangars will be replaced by wooden or corrugated iron ones. The parking spaces for automobiles will be permanently fenced in, and the start greatly improved over its condition of last year...
...place, the machine was in no sense whatever "wrecked"; in the second place, there was no "secret trial at night"; and in the third, this was not its "maiden flight," as there was no attempt, either successful or unsuccessful, to leave the ground. The aeroplane was taken from its tent shortly before 8 o'clock Tuesday evening to try the running gear in preparation for the advertised trial flights on the following morning, and at the end of a run it coasted, before it could be stopped, into a sand heap at the side of the field. A slightly bent...
Yesterday morning the aeroplane was taken from the garage to Soldiers Field, where it will be housed under a tent erected behind the baseball stands. Though some difficulty was experienced during the moving owing to the narrowness of the Boylston street bridge, the field was reached without accident. It was decided, therefore, to make a trial of the engine, and with Martin in the pilot's seat the machine went four times the length of the field under its own power...