Word: aires
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard will today act as host to the man who was first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air, Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Rcad. Members of the University will have an opportunity to hear personally from Commander Read of his experiences, when he will speak at the meeting in the Living Room of the Union at 8'clock. Preceding the meeting there will be a small dinner given in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. commander Reads talk tonight is the first one of a series which the Graduate Manager of the Union...
Commander Read was appointed to the Naval Academy from Massachusetts in 1903, graduating-with honors in 1907. On June 30, 1915, he was detailed by the Navy Department to receive flying in struction and on June 5, 1917, he was sent to the Naval Air Station at Bay Shore, Long Island, where be acted as Commanding Officer. Later he went to Washington where he ably filled various responsible positions in the Department of Operations, Aviation...
...appointed in charge of the NC-4. It was in this capacity that he flew the NC-4 to victory over her sister planes in May, 1919, thus giving the United States the honor of being the first nation to successfully complete a transatlantic fight with a heavier-than-air machine...
...provide accommodations for the greatly increased number of men who will be exercising, the department of physical training will commandeer every available inch of Soldiers Field suitable for outdoor sport. As much as possible the men will be kept outdoors, for the director believes in the value of open air as a complement of exercise. In the winter time the men will have the use of Hemenway Gymnasium, Randolph Gymnasium, the Baseball Cage, the Dunster swimming pool and its squash courts. Thirteen squash and racquet courts will be available in Randolph Gymnasium after repairs now under way are completed...
...classes of graduates who are here to celebrate the day. There is not the slightest need this year to hope that spreads and dinners will be a success, or that all will have a good time. No acute observer is needed to tell us that joy is in the air, that celebration is at the same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant until the last observation-train pulls out of New London Friday night, to the tune of "This is Harvard's Day." Fully conscious of the spirit of the occasion...