Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
...suggestion to teach aeronautical theory in our universities is strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department...
Were students in engineering schools like our own able to take theoretical courses in aviation, a wide field for activity would open to them upon graduation; and a progressive Air Force worthy of our industrial magnitude would represent the nation...
...United States .... What is the United States doing? Close perusal or reams and reams of congressional; Records fails to show that the United States is doing anything. The treaty will shortly be in effect, with the United States left out in the clod, unwarmed by anything but senatorial hot air. For surely, if this country delays action much longer, the other powers cannot help regarding us with suspicion. What, then, of our prominent trade expansion? Trade come not easily to those who do not inspire confidence and who are late in the field besides. The loud-sounding phrases and round...
...holds a poor position among educational institutions, and is a doubtful luxury rather than a necessity in a strenuous land. But if it is a community in which young men are striving to make the most of the great opportunities intellectual, social, and physical offered them in its free air; seeking to develop themselves for life in a large world by studying what men have thought and done and learned; then it is the most broadening, enlarging and stimulating place to be found. Every young man needs to acquire a habit of concentration, and a devotion to purpose, without inquiring...