Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This would place Harvard in a commanding position in a new field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk and live in the air, and are now beginning to utilize our power to spring from earth and traverse the air. The importance of knowing more about that medium is apparent...
...London, Conn., June 7--Undervery favorable weather conditions, the Harvard University eight had its first time time trial over the four-mile course here today, and finished after 21 minutes 19 seconds of steady rowing. Captain Watts set an easy beat of 27 strokes to the minute for three quarters of the distance, the jayvee eight accompanying the first boat this far and then stopping. Swimming into the last mile, the first crew raised its beat to 36, and in the closing 300 yards the stroke went up and up until a racing pitch of 43 was reached. Such...
...coaching launch "Patricia" has not yet arrived here, although it was expected last Tuesday. The weather has held it up, and meanwhile the "Class of 1892" and the "Black Pup," the latter Coach Brown's customary point of vantage, have been plying the waters of the Thames...
...morning the two shells paddled downstream to the two mile mark and changed boats. Although the water was not rough, and the weather ideal for rowing, Coach E. J. Brown '96 did not have the crews race. The two eights changed shells and then paddled back over the two mile course. The only change in the seating was made in the second boat where A. A. Campbell '30 and B. J. Harrison '29 changed seats...
...weather and the fact that divisional examinations kept the Seniors from mustering their full strength on more than one or two afternoons prevented the completion of the full number of scheduled league games. Those who reported for class baseball, however, were given plenty of chance to play, either in scrub games or in tilts with high school nines...