Word: present
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether the order of the boat during this week will remain the same as at present depends upon the showing of the new men. Balch and Newton will have to compete with Hooper and Leslie, who have been rowing 3 and 2, respectively. As far as physical qualifications are concerned, there is little to choose among them, so that everything depends upon the form displayed...
...Boutroux is at present engaged in developing the liberal theory of contingency. His view is that contingency is the sequence of unforeseeable novelties and unexpected occurrences which interrupts the natural movement of life and which cannot be comprehended by means of our intellectual formulas...
...seems certain that in a few years, with growing faculties, more scholarships, and improved facilities, the Harvard engineering department will reach a higher place and hold a more assured reputation than at present. Indeed it has already entered on a well-planned scheme of expansion. As its progress continues, the annual meetings of its two allied societies will have greater significance and interest each year...
...present the men are experimenting in the use of a newly invented instrument called a "transformer tuner." This instrument by means of a highly complicated mechanism cuts out all messages which are not within a certain radius of the receiving station, to which it is attached; thus obviating all chances of error in receiving despatches. In perfecting this instrument the club hopes to be able to aid greatly all receiving stations and to make a great step towards the perfection of wireless telegraphy...
...provisional cast of "Diana's Debut," which the Hasty Pudding Club will present this year is as follows: Sultan of Turkey, R. M. Middlemass '09 Sultana, R. MacVeagh '10 Conspirators: Abdalla, L. Hill '10 Abdulla, W. K. Earle '10 Diana, debutante daughter of Sultan, R. H. Hutchinson '10 Alexander, Crown Prince of Turkey, R. C. Foster '10 Grand Vizier, G. K. Munroe '10 Imperial Messengers: Longboat, H. M. Platt '10 Shrubb, B. Tuckerman '11 Durando, F. H. Burrage '10 Hayes, G. C. Prince '10 Mutt, G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 Little Jeff, J. R. Mayer '10 Ushers: 1. H. Jaques...