Word: conquest
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...first of the series, "The British Empire of Today," will come tomorrow. The subjects of the other lectures will be: "Great Britain's Predecessors and Rivals in Empire Building," "The Making of the British Empire of Today and the Conquest of India," "The First of the Greater Britains Beyond the Seas, Canada," "Australasia and Its Island Continents," "Africa, the Laggard Continent," "The Power of the Empire...
...Blue Hill Observatory spoke in the Union on "Aerial Navigation," the names of the Wright brothers were the only ones generally known in connection with the subject; today dozens of men with several types of machines are solving in two continents the problems of man's flight. The conquest of the air by balloon and aeroplane will be in this age what the mastery of land and water by steam was in the last generation...
Professor E. D. Peters '77 will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Conquest of the Matterhorn" under the auspices of the Mining Club, in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be illustrated with lantern slides made from drawings by Mr. Edward Whymper, who reached the summit of the Matterhorn after several unsuccessful attempts...
...HARVARD MINING CLUB. "The Conquest of the Matterhorn." (Illustrated by lantern slides.) Professor Peters. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...HARVARD MINING CLUB. "The Conquest of the Matterhorn." (Illustrated by lantern slides.) Professor Peters. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...