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LECTURES ON BEAUTY AND USE. VI. "Music and Literature." Dr. H. M. Kallen. Emerson F, 4.30 P.M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...
...subject requiring legislation. The present rules forbid coaching from the side-lines, and the obvious intention is that when a team is once on the field it shall play its own game, depending on its own initiative for the solving of an opponent's attack and for the successful use of its own plays...
...Kallen '03, of the Department of Philosophy, will give a lecture on "Music and Literature" in Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This is the sixth of a course of seven lectures on the general subject "Beauty and Use: Outlines of a Pragmatic Philosophy of Art." The Lecture is open to members of the University and Radcliffe College...
...Merrill began his 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...
After the lecture Mr. W. H. Aitken, who has charge of the aeronautical exhibit at the "Boston 1915" exposition, gave several demonstrations of the Bleriot aeroplane by the use of a small paper model which was would up and propelled about the lecture hall...