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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Club rooms, furnished with models of aeroplanes and dirigibles, and containing an aero library, besides all the current periodicals, will be secured in one of the Yard dormitories. Two distinct courses of lectures will be given; one on popular subjects, by well known navigators such as Herring, Curtiss, and Cody, and the other on the more technical phases of aerial navigation by Professors A. C. Rotch, I. N. Hollis '99, and others. A special lecture, illustrated by 3,000 feet of areoplane flight pictures, will be given in the latter part of this month...
...existing resources of the university could be placed at the service of the community. It was much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular nature. As illustrations of the better policy he cited the school for industrial foremen conducted jointly by the Lowell Institute and the Institute of Technology, and the collegiate courses now being given by the co-operation of the Lowell Institute and Harvard University...
...ashamed to chronicle such figures in connection with class football. It is, or should be, the most popular of the minor sports at this season. This year especially, with an unusually long series of games to provide competition, there is opportunity for the best men to show their worth and for the development of team play...
...French epics, and has published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different classes of society, especially those between monks and minstrels. They are based on the author's own investigations, and are not popular lectures for the general public. They will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College and others interested in the subject. The times and the place will be announced later...
...medicine, business, the ministry, engineering, law, and education were delivered through the winter by men representative of their respective professions, and on every occasion were well attended by Union members. The pop concerts, given each month alternately by the Pierian Sodality and the University Musical Clubs, have been more popular than in past years, the average attendance being about three hundred. Mr. Copeland's series of six readings given in the Dining Room during January and February were the most uniformly successful of any Union entertainments. At each reading the room was filled to its utmost capacity...