Word: cans
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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...
"As for the comparative danger of football, I can say that in my lifetime I have played football with hundreds of young men and boys, and I have never heard of one of them being fatally injured in the game; in the comparatively short time that I have been flying...
"Of course, under the right conditions flying can be made safe, but those conditions are never racing conditions. There are two essentials for safe flying--comparatively low speed and a high altitude. It is obvious that racing permits neither of these.
I consider that it is highly advisable that, preferably as a branch of universal training, the Government provide aviation fields at the various colleges. If they cannot give practice in actual flying, they can at least teach the theory of flight and the construction of airplanes.
Head Coach Fisher '12, the next speaker, emphasized the fact that the easy schedule was forced upon the management by circumstances. "We sent the team against Princeton without knowing how well it would show up. But from the first minute the team 'came back.' And the fact that the team...