Word: progression
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...progress of dentistry during the past sixty years has been extraordinary. Indeed, dentistry as a profession requiring a wide range of varied knowledge and a high degree of skill of eye and hand may almost be said to have been created within that period. The work to be done by the dentist, and his materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable...
...lecture with a brief history of the development of the aeroplane, which is the only practical method of the three employed to elevate a 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...
...Francis J. McConnell, president of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. His subject will be: "Between the blade and the full corn stage in divine progress...
...meeting in the Union at 8 o'clock he was introduced first. He began by giving unstinted praise to the work of the second team during the season of 1909. The second team has developed fully as much as the University team and it is owing to the continued progress of the former that the latter has gained great strength. "You have stuck to the game, and I want to thank you for keeping the Harvard spirit right...
...Progress in the interclass tennis tournament was delayed again yesterday on account of rain, and the postponed match between G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 and A. Sweetser '11 will be played at 2 o'clock this afternoon on Jarvis Field. At the same time T. B. Townsend, Jr., '10, and F. F. A. Pearson '11, will meet in singles. In case both Sweetser and Pearson win, thus placing the Juniors even with the Seniors, both having won four matches, Fraser-Campbell and Pearson from the Junior team will meet Townsend and Wheelwright from the Senior team in doubles, to pick...