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...Athletic Committee is to be congratulated upon the action which it took last evening with regard to the readjustment of football rules. The necessity of some revision is only too apparent, and we are glad to see the Athletic Committee taking the first step in this matter. It now rests with the Advisory Committee on Football to suggest alterations in the rules capable of correcting the present evils of the game, not only in theory, but in practice...
...elevate a heavier-than-air machine. The other two the use of vertical screws and the oscillation of wings, involve almost insoluble questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem of stability which had hitherto impeded any practical progress in mechanical aviation. Mr. Merrill then showed stereopticon views of the gliders invented by Lielienthal...
Professor Brewster was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1877 and two years later took the degree of LL.B. at the Yale Law School. From 1883 to 1897 he practiced law in Detroit and then entered the faculty of law at the University of Michigan as lecturer on conveyancing. Since 1903 he has held the position of editor of the Michigan Law Review. His lecture this evening will be based on personal experiences and extensive travels among the inhabitants of Chili, Bolivia, and Peru...
...ball with a loss of two yards. Leslie made three yards through tackle, before Minot punted to Philbin who fumbled, Captain Fish recovering the ball for Harvard on Yale's 54-yard line. Minot made a five-yard gain through centre and Corbett added three more. Corbett again took the ball through tackle and was downed on Yale's 36-yard line, after a gain of ten yards, for first down, In the next two plays Corbett carried the ball but gained only three yards. O'Flaherty then tried a forward pas, which was unsuccessful and although the ball...
...Leslie gained five yards, then Minot made first down through the line. Two more plays carried the ball to Harvard's 46-yard line, and here Minot made an accurate onside kick which was recovered by Browne on Yale's 47-yard line, Howe somewhat misjudging the kick. Frothingham took the ball on the next play but Yale was penalized for being offside. Three plays, with the Harvard offence working like a machine, made first down on Yale's 29-yard line. Two more line plays gained but three yards and Frothingham tried an onside kick which went over...