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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual dinner and an initiation of eight new members of the Harvard Flying Club will be held this evening at the Harvard Club of Boston, chiefly for the purpose of accepting new, members. These have been inspecting the East Boston Airport twice a week since the competition began four weeks ago. They are: J. C. Cowdin Jr. '35, H. H. Foster '35, R. S. Hurlburt '34, W. F. Ladd Jr. '35, A. R. McIlvaine '35, F. L. Spreckels '35, and H. D. Schmidt...
Some account of Planet P was made known in 1928. Now, however, Professor Pickering has estimated not only its orbit (an ellipse whose distance from the sun varies between 5,000 and 9,000 million mi.) but its diameter (44,000 mi.). It is twice as far from the sun as far-flung Pluto, is the third most massive of the sun's family, exceeded only by Jupiter and ringed Saturn. Its sidereal period: 656 years...
...above startling laymen from time to time, several years ago Professor Pickering guessed that on some parts of the moon crops grew twice a day. He also suggested that the moon was flung into space from the present site of the Pacific Ocean; that if that had not happened, the earth would now be peopled exclusively by deep sea fish. If anyone has $10,000,000 to spare, Professor Pickering offers to show him how to signal Mars...
...lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge men twice...
Batting up and down a muddy field, and continually threatening each others' goal line, the Harvard and Dartmouth freshmen elevens played to a scorelesstie on Memorial Field at Hanover. Twice the Indian team penetrated deep into the Harvard territory, and each time when the resolute Crimson forces held them, the attempted field goals which missed the uprights by inches...