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After December 10 three groups of men will be organized into experiment sections. Two of these will work with gliders, which will be obtained before the mid-year period; and the third will carry on experiments with gas engines, with a view to perfecting them for use in aeroplanes. All men intending to enter any of these sections will send their names to E. C. Brown '12, 27 Holyoke street before December...
...students to whom an extension is granted is thereby released from his responsibility to his instructors, nor is he thereby excused from hour examinations or written tests. Absence from Cambridge is no excuse for delay in handing in written work...
...formal presentation of the Filley Cups for the inter-dormitory rowing championship was made last night in the Thayer Common Room. Mr. B. A. G. Fuller '00, in making the presentation, said that in donating these cups he was attempting two things: first, to recall the work of O. D. Filley '06, captain of the University crew in 1905 and 1906; and second, to cultivate among undergraduates a fondness for rowing and athletics in general. Captain Filley was the first man to recognize the value of secondary rowing and it was chiefly due to him that inter-dormitory rowing...
...heavier-than-air machine. The other two the use of vertical screws and the oscillation of wings, involve almost insoluble questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem of stability which had hitherto impeded any practical progress in mechanical aviation. Mr. Merrill then showed stereopticon views of the gliders invented by Lielienthal and explained...
Special interest in the missionary work is manifested this year by the University on account of the fact that M. R. Edwards M.'08 is in China looking over the conditions in order to present a definite project on establishing a Harvard Mission there...