Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there are unusual doings up there. Last year, Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institute, announced his measurements of the diminution in the sun's heat. His results have been independently corroborated by Herbert J. Browne, a Washington meteorologist, who finds that the solar constant, the unit of measurement of solar heat, has declined from a normal of between 1.94 and 1.98 to 1.90 in the past two years. This has lowered the temperature of the open oceans all over the world about 4½ degrees F. If this heat loss should become only twice as great...
...those men have satisfactorily concluded the four year course in Military Science and Tactics offered jointly by the War Department and the University through the Harvard unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Those who will receive certificates will be able to exchange these for commissions, as soon as they reach their twenty-first birthday...
Radical shifts in the teaching personnel of the Military Science Department for next year were announced last night by Colonel W. S. Browning, in charge of the Field Artillery Unit at the University. When the department enters on its sixth year at the University next fall, two of the present, instructors will leave Cambridge for active service and three new officers from the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, will replace them on the teaching force at the University...
...provisions of the "Manchu Act", a regulation of the War Department requiring every officer in the Regular Army to pass at least one year out of five in active service with enlisted troops. Captain Daniels has spent the last four years on the teaching staff of the University Unit, to which he was appointed in 1920, the year after the establishment of the unit at Harvard. Next year he will do service work at Fort Sill, Captain Perry has spent two years at Cambridge, and two years at the unit in Yale. His year of active service will take...
...scores; and finally McKeon has been a constant scoring threat at attack. These three players will bother the University considerably next Saturday. On its side Harvard can point to no single brilliant lights; Coach Herbert is rather depending on a team which will play and fight as a unit, and he is bending every effort this week in a final drive to bring the squad to the highest possible peak of development...