Word: aero
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced, in connection with the lecture, that an elementary course in aviation would be given by the University Aero Society, starting next week. The first meeting will be held in Stoughton 6 on Monday, November 26, at 7.30 o'clock, and classes will be held regularly once a week thereafter. No previous experience is required for the course, and all who are interested in aviation are desired to report...
Professor Robert D. Ward, who recently resigned from the meteorology department of the University to enlist his services with the Government, has been appointed to give instruction in atmospheric phenomena to the prospective aviators enrolled in the aero course established at Technology. His work will be carried on in co-operation with the War Department under orders of which he lately made a visit to Toronto to make a study of the instruction which is there being given at the Cadet School of the Royal Flying Corps. Professor Ward has become a member of the teaching staff of the Institute...
...Junior class at Yale has lost the greatest number of men on account of enlistments in government service. To date the total is 201 members of the class have left college. The unit which attracted the most attention was Unit No. 1 of the Aero Coast Patrol, which has been under intensive training at Palm Beach, Florida. It was the first unit to leave college. Of the officers' training camps, Plattsburg drew the largest number, while only three of the camps are not included in the list. Representatives of the class are enrolled in 36 different units...
...past have been laid at the door of Congress, since the beginning of this war Congress has seen fit to give all that the administration has asked for national defence and much more than the administration has asked for air defence. Credit is due to the Aero Club of America, led by its president, Mr. Allen R. Hawley, Rear Admiral Peary, Mr. Henry A. Wisenwood, Mr. Woodhouse, Mr. Augustus H. Post, and others, in a very vigorous proproganda for greater preparedness...
...same shell. Their places are being taken by N. Brazer '18 and N. Darling '17, respectively. C. Higginson '17 is being temporarily kept out of practice by the patrol squadron, and M. Taylor '17 has quit rowing for the remainder of the year to serve with the Aero Corps. On Saturday so many men of the first Freshman eight were reporting with their units at Newport that the boat was unable to go out for practice...