Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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James MacKaye '95 gave the second of a series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" before a large and interested audience in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. His topic was "The Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which...
Compulsory production is most effective when mechanical. Negative consumption creates an excess of happiness or unhappiness, which we call, respectively, tastes and needs. Positive consumption tends to simplify tastes; luxuries are required only by those who have no resources in themselves. Spontaneous consumption is the most useful of these four...
The newly organized Harvard Aeronautical Society will give a cinematographic exhibit entitled "Man On the Wing" in Brattle Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Over 3000 feet of films, showing flights of well-known aeronauts, will be used in this exhibit. Tickets are now on sale at Amee's...
As the charter membership list closes on December 12, all those desiring to join the society should attend this meeting. The management announces that all members of the University who have signed the membership list but have not yet procured cards will receive them upon sending the $2 entrance fee...
The society further announces that just before the exhibit a statement will be made in regard to the experimental sections which are to start work immediately. Three sections will be organized, two to work with gliders and another to carry on experiments with the gas engine. Professor I. N. Hollis...