Word: airing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
...think, however, that it is of the greatest importance that college men be trained in practical and theoretical aviation. The future safety of the country depends on having always available a large number of trained aviators, for the wars of the future will be decided in the air, I am convinced. And the colleges are the obvious sources of material for skilled pilots...
Negotiations are few under way for intercollegiate air races, but no definite results have yet been accomplished. It now seems probable that the University, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and several other institutions will be affiliated in an air league which will hold a regular series of races throughout the year...
...Tuesday night, November 25, the club will hold a banquet in the Union, at which Lieutenant-Colonell Leonard. H. Drennan, officer in charge of the Air Service Department of the Northeast, and Godfrey L. Cabot '82, President of the Aero Club of New England, will be the chief speakers...
...club, but also any members of the University who have served as pilots in the war, will be admitted, provided they notify the club in advance. Colonel Drennan will outline the plans of the aeronautical reserve and sketch briefly the opportunities offered to men entering the national air service...