Word: wave
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the University have succumbed to the second wave of influenza now sweeping over this section of the country. Herbert A. Janzlik '20, of Trenton, New Jersey, died last Saturday night at the Stillman Infirmary. The following day Walter W. Jacobs, a special student in English 12, died at the Cambridge Hospital after a week's illness. Mr. Jacobs was 28 years old and attended Syracuse two years ago. He leaves a wife and a six a months old child, who live in Cambridge...
...this a novel letter? I see an- other machine over the town doing circles. I guess it's Tom --. We were told to meet at 2000 feet over the town and fly around together. I'm at 5000, and I'm going to dive to 2000 and wave at him. Whee. Motor off, stick forward, and down we go! Gad, its bumpy down here at 2000! It's Tom all right, because I know the number of his machine. He waved--I waved. I shall climb...
...year ago the registration at Yale was more than 3,300. The present wave of departure is accounted for by the knowledge that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, to which about 900 of the undergraduates belong, will be called upon by the Government in a few weeks. Many of its members are taking advantage of an opportunity to spend a short time at home before finally entering military service. When the call for members of the corps to report is made, it is estimated that the college membership will fall to about...
There may be some satisfaction--though we doubt it--to know that the progress of cold waves is "due to thee gravity of the hydrostatic pressure due to the weight of the air in the rear of a volume of cold air advancing from the northwest, resulting from the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis, giving a centrifugal force to the denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent...
...that the Randolph Squash Courts and pool have been made into a second-class gymnasium, and the informal eleven has finished its season, we are interested to know what athletics will be carried on this winter. Hockey, subject to the wave of informalism, may be a winter sport as usual. This project is to be discussed tonight by the Athletic Committee to determine whether or not we shall be represented...