Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aviator has a vast number of varying air currents to contend with, and he must therefore be acquainted with relative velocities and varying conditions of winds. To illustrate these conditions Professor Rotch showed charts on the screen of wind velocity and pressure at low and high altitudes. The pressure and velocity increase rapidly as the altitude increases. Charts were also shown of the prevalent winds. West winds are prevalent at high altitudes and in the winter. North of the equator the trade winds are northeasterly and south of the equator they are southeasterly. If the aviator or balloonist followed...
...such rule. Then, a speaker came whom the Corporation saw fit to exclude. At once there arose the inevitable cry of discrimination. Papers all over the land heralded Harvard's ideas on the particular subject under discussion. As a matter of fact, neither the Corporation nor the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates had any such ideas. Naturally, this sort of publicity was odious to a degree. Thus, were there no regulation, every refusal by the Corporation would result in like misrepresentation...
...great many Freshmen are misinformed as to the nature of Appleton Chapel and its ideals. As we pointed out yesterday, the preparatory school compulsory chapel does not, as a rule, cultivate a desire to continue attendance at morning prayers while in College. In order to show Freshmen the vast difference between the spirit of our service and that at most preparatory schools, just such talks as were given last evening are of the utmost advantage. We heartily endorse this sort of service and especially the spirit of the several Freshmen who did much to bring it about. We hope...
...Carnegie Peace Foundation, of which he is a trustee, to travel through the Asiatic countries for the purpose of studying public opinion with regard to international peace. Although Dr. Eliot will speak considerably on matters of educational interest, he regards this trip as an exploration to discover how the vast resources of the Peace Foundation may be used to the best advantage...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...