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...have played with the 150's this year are expected to join the House teams next fall. Class teams were done away with last year, and the present action will serve similarly to augment the number of men reporting for House football...
...night-flying hours and some day qualify as a mail pilot. Pilot Lou Strickler, 18, flew in the moonlight one night last week around Latrobe Airport, Pa. Three friends who had been taking turns hopping with him waited on the ground, their automobile headlights marking the field to augment the airport's meagre lights. Pilot Strickler came in for a landing, "felt his plane hit something," learned to his horror that he had mowed down and killed his three friends
...parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect the thriving Enquirer against invasion of the morning field by outside competition- possibly Hearst. Year ago shrewd General Manager William F. Wiley contracted for United Press and Universal Service to augment the Enquirer's Associated Press franchise. Then, according to report, Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, son of the founder (and publisher also of the Washington Post), won an agreement from Hearst to stay out of Cincinnati for at least three years. Thus, when the Commercial Tribune lost even...
Recently many so-called educators have gone to the opposite extreme of placing emphasis on individual differences, an extreme that is no more tenable when employed without check than that of exclusive attention to individual similarities. . . This tendency has reached the college and serves to augment the impulse in the same direction given by the system of free electives initiated by President Eliot of Harvard. Under the influence of this movement the colleges have multiplied the number of courses offered so that any taste, however specialized or even erratic, may be satisfied...
...Assistant Secretary Young a bright picture was presented by the transport lines. Said he: "Those that render a service clearly advantageous in time over other means of travel, or which advantageously augment surface transportation, are doing a satisfactory business...