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...Freshman crew defeated the Seniors in the Beacon Cup Regatta Yesterday. The Freshmen covered the mile and seven-eighths course in 10 minutes and four seconds. With the Seniors a length and a quarter behind...
Robert Homans '94, a member of the Harvard Corporation, one of Boston's most eminent barristers, and a director in many large business enterprises here in the East, passed away yesterday in his home at 33 Chestnut Street, Beacon Hill, at the age of 61 years...
...total to only 39. From Mitchel Field, piloting his own observation plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that...
Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Hollywood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...
Granted that flying conditions were poor; granted that army fliers lack experience in blind and instrument piloting, radio beacon landing; granted that the government's aeroplanes were some years behind the civilian transport machines in efficient performances--that may be valid excuse for their poor performance in carrying the mails, but it would be small consolation had the emergency been one which could not be controlled by executive order or opposition legislation. The individual army pilots lack neither courage or ability, but the equipment, training, and morale of that service is far below the standards of practical preparedness...