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...made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards above the Laboratory across Langdell Hall to Walter Hastings Hall, a distance of over 600 feet. A message has been received from Berlin, a distance of 3,000 miles, and several times stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly...
...sale of seats has been very large, and comparatively few are left. Orders have come in from all over the country even as far as the Pacific Coast...
Over four hundred athletes from over 20 colleges have sent in their entries. A conspicuous absence is that of the University of California, which felt unable to send a team because of the numerous meets on the Pacific coast. California scored 18 points last year. Cornell has one of the largest teams entered, 31 making the trip. Injuries during the last week have caused the withdrawal of Lewis, a sprinter, and Van Kennan, a pole-vaulter. Foss, who has been looked upon as the winner of the pole-vault, has not entirely recovered from the injury to his wrist. Dartmouth...
...Cruft Memorial High Tension Laboratory recently heard from stations on the pacific coast. A while ago it was announced that a message had been received from Berlin. This is not equally remarkable, as will be explained later. Messages from Germany have been received frequently since, and are now no longer the exception. The wireless has also received calls from various southern posts over a thousand miles away. The reach seems to be constantly developing under the expert guidance of the men back of the undertaking...
There are three reasons why it is a much more difficult proposition to receive messages from the Pacific Coast rather than from the other side of the Atlantic. This is dependent on the fact that there is land to deal with in one case, while there is only water, or nearly so, in the other. Firstly, the sun's rays are radiated from the earth so extensively that they take much of the energy in the electric waves. This fact is particularly true at this season of the year, for at present these rays of the sun are at very...