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There will be two blackboards in use, one as a chart to show the progress of the team, play by play, and the other to give the names of the players, substitutions, and other facts of interest. As fast as dispatches are received, the plays will be announced through a megaphone, while they are graphically portrayed on the blackboard. Blue chalk will be used for Yale plays, and red for the University, with the customary curved, dotted and broken lines to show kicks, line plunges, forward passes, etc. These will be drawn on a chart of the field...
...current interest. Advance Letters, coming out at the beginning and middle of each month, give the earliest possible notice of the movements of the forecaster. Every effort is made to bring these letters up to date, a novel form being employed by which it is possible to prepare the chart for printing within a few hours. The third publication is a Supplement, issued several times a year, which presents reports of special investigations of larger interest...
...repeated by Chancellor Shipley, who in the absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke of the value...
...ground covered by the instruction is substantially that of the "American Practical Navigator," Bowditch. A considerable part of the time will be devoted to the theory and practice in the use of nautical instruments, including the chart, compass--corrections and adjustments--lead, log, and sextant in the determination of the position of a ship at sea. The course also instructs in the determination of time, as well as the latitude and longitude, by means of the sextant...
...class will include only those who apply especialy for such a course. The instruction will cover generally those parts of the subject that will be useful for motorboat owners and others interested in the management of power boats employed with the patrol squadrons, such as pilot- ing, dead reckoning, chart reading...