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...University, as represented by the Aeronautical Society, has been invited to become a contender for the Intercollegiate Aviation Trophy which is to be given by the Aero Club of America. The competition will be an annual one held under the rules governing Intercollegiate regattas. The details for the races are being worked out by the Contest Committee of the Aero-Club...
...creation of the Intercollegiate Aviation Trophy was made possible by the bequest of the late Mr. Samuel H. Valentine, who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Aero Club. It has been estimated that fully fifty per cent of the total number of Army and Navy aviators are college undergraduates. Prospective competitors will be required to hold the pilot's certificate which is issued by the Aero Club of America...
Recent citations of the American and French Armies contain the names of three University men. Captain John Mitchell '18, of the 95th Aero Squadron is cited, posthumously, by the U. S. Department for "extraordinary heroism in action." He was killed during an aerial combat against superior numbers, after having downed an enemy biplane, near Beaumont...
Aeronautics has made wonderful progress during the War and will become one of the great sciences of the future. Perhaps it will not be many years before we see regular aero passenger lines running between the big centres of industry throughout the country. Already a limited mail service has been established. In a short time the Atlantic Ocean will undoubtedly be crossed by a heavier-than-air machine. All kinds of possible uses of the airplane suggest themselves...
...military efficiency is to be carried out, these university adjuncts must be kept in working condition. The difference between the amount of coal necessary to heat the buildings used for military purposes and the entire college is so slight as to make its saving negligible. The radio schools, the aero schools, the engineering schools and the R. O. T. C. must be continued, and the regular college functions may as well go along with them...