Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Aero Club has definitely expressed itself in favor of the plan of holding an Intercollegiate air race during the coming year. It was tentatively agreed that the second week in May would prove the best time...
...definite arrangements and details of the air race plans for the University have been placed in the hands of a committee of three, one member to represent each of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. L. E. Thomas '21, secretary of the University Aero Club, has been electer to act as chairman of this committee...
...will speak on the Treaty from the point of view of the service man, was attached to the American Ambulance Field Service before the United States entered the war. In March, 1917, he joined the British Army, and was shortly afterwards commissioned a first lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. Last year he was wounded in action and was awarded the British Military Cross. He was honorably, discharged last June and is now an instructor in Comparative Literature at the University...
Lieutenant-Colonel Drennan, after explaining the plans for consolidating the Army and Navy air services, also expressed himself as in favor of intercollegiate competition, giving for his principal argument in its favor the fact that it would create the interest among the colleges and the public necessary to insure America's pre-eminence in the air...
Cornell is following the lead of other Eastern universities in the formation of an Aero Club, consisting of all undergraduates who were qualified pilots in the air service of the Allies. The organization of the club follows closely upon that of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, with whom Cornell hopes to join in some form of aviation league...