Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Great enthusiasm has been aroused all over the country by the announcement of these intercollegiate aerial contests and it is expected that the events will be of considerable value to the nation in continuing the development of American astronauties in time of peace...
...aviators with a view to making entries in the contests. "Possibly the most celebrated heroes of the war were the airmen of all nations," said Mr. Hawley. "America is particularly proud of the record of the Lafayette Flying Corps, which contained many college men. Among the Aces of the American Army besides the famous Captain Eddie Rickenbacker are Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, Lieutenant Chestier Wright, and Lieutenant Thomas Hitchcock, of Harvard, and many others who have helped to make the name of Harvard long rememberer in the history of American aviation. There are still other great names to be recorded...
...appeal, reprinted this morning in another column, from the Dodecanesian Students' Council asking for the University's support in re-establishing Greek claims to certain islands now held by Italy, gives a touching indication of the confidence which exists between students in countries widely separated. It is difficult for American university men, unfamiliar as they are with any form of external oppression, to appreciate fully the part that their brothers-in-learning across the sea, play in securing freedom for many an oppressed fatherland...
...There can be no doubt, however, that the prestige of the daily press has suffered everywhere because of the war. In my judgment, enough lying has been done by the American press about the war to last for a hundred years, and this is not the normal misrepresentation due to human fallibility and the exigencies of news-gathering. Of course, the governments must bear the largest share of the blame for this newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into...
...American eight was composed of oarsmen from the University, Cornell, Yale, Washington, and the University of California. The two representatives from the University were Lt. Thomas Jefferies '16, and Captain Harry Cabot '17, who rowed for three years on the University crew, captaining it his final season...