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...ever been connected with one of them. Five competitions will be held this year, with a first prize of $50 and a second of $25. On each of five Friday afternoons, of which only two dates, November 16 and 30, have as yet been set, a problem will be given out at 5 o'clock. The final drawings and solutions are to be handed in by the following Monday at 9 o'clock in the morning...
...Boston and its vicinity, and to get them to participate in one or more of the competitions in their own schools. One of the most valuable features of the Beaux-Arts in Paris is the way in which graduates of the ateliers often return to take an occasional problem given to the students in the School. These graduates are known as "ancients", and, by returning to their ateliers, they give the younger men the benefit of their experience in offices. Some substitute for this system is badly needed in the United States, and it is with this idea in mind...
...that the Philippine controversy has resolved itself into a distinct case for complete independence, it is fortunate that Harvard is to have an exposition of this case from Mr. Pedro Guevara, Philippine representative at Washington, tonight at the Union. the some 3,141 islands composing the Philippines, present a problem to our government every bit as complex as that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack...
This nonchalant remark brings one to the realization that a new stage in air-development has arrived. Increasing speed brings no new dangers in the way of collisions. The danger point has long since been reached. The new problem is what rate of speed the human system can stand without collapsing Inertia of the internal organs has caused unconsciousness in rounding curves at the new terrific speeds...
...This is a problem which confronts every intelligent citizen of the United States, for when two of the greatest of all nations fail to cooperate, it is an un-excusable calamity." General Allen was then asked if a stronger treaty alliance with Great Britain would be the steadying and binding influence. "That is not the idea at all" he replied. "We do not need political union with England, in fact we should keep away from the network of international rules which in themselves furnish plenty of ground for all sorts of bickering. Friendly feeling is the thing that should...