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...first four days of the Preparedness Week Campaign have shown encouraging results. Although the new enlistments for the Plattsburg Camps have not been surprisingly large, there has been a great increase both in the interest and enrolments for the Naval Cruise and the recently organized Aero Camp on Long Island...
David Gregg '18, of Brookline, was awarded the silver cup offered by the Aero Club for the best complete design of a hydro-aeroplane of 60 horse-power or less, and was also given special mention for his efforts by the judges of the competition at a meeting of the club last evening. The winner is building a model of his machine and will give it a trial fight in the tower of the Technology buildings. A full-sized machine will be built from the model next winter and will be flown the following summer. The awarded cup, together with...
...Yale, an artillery battalion and an aero corps have been formed, and such military training is not counted in the curriculum. It was intended at first to organize but one battery of field artillery. However, 437 men applied for enrolment the first day applications were permitted, and this number had increased to over 900 within the next week, when it was deemed best to organize four battalions. Since the strength of the Connecticut National Guard is limited, but 486 men could be enrolled. This was 46 men under the number comprising the minimum strength of four batteries. Systematic training...
...only in the triangular debates, but elsewhere, was whether we should increase our military and naval forces at all. Today the question everyone is discussing is not, "Shall we prepare?" but "How shall we prepare?" The University has answered in a way by forming the regiment and the aero corps...
...principal expenses for the University aero corps will be for machines. Three-cylinder engines are best adapted for practice use. They average about 25 and 35 horsepower apiece, and the approximate cost for each horsepower...