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...civilian clerk, were killed at Boiling Field, Washington, in a DH-4-B airplane which went into a spin at 200 feet in the air, crashed and burst into flames. The machine had taken off correctly into the teeth of the wind, the motor did not cut-out or choke, flying controls responded perfectly. The investigating board is baffled. In spite of immense progress in aerodynamics, many accidents still remain a complete mystery...
Consider this congregation of students: each here to study the life of his and other times. A part choke their understanding with the dust of mummies and never see that world which revolveth around them. They think that because they had to labour they have learned all of today. Another part have no knowledge from experience. They shun those who have labored, cling to themselves in order that they may hear their own thoughts from the lips of another.--most insidious flattery! Part are alone and cherish their loneliness lost they lose an illusion of superiority...
...cent of them would be willing to ask a dairyman if his cows were Leghorns. And when six per cent do not know what an Artichoke is, while six more assert it to be a fish, three a lizard, and one, no doubt thinking of the strangling powers (choke) of a boa constrictor, claims it as denoting a snake we cannot help but wonder in what world these sixteen per cent receive their information--or lack of it." And of especial interest to Harvard men is the following quotation from the article...
...Donald 3L. in the line of the second eleven. Cutts was unable to handle Donald, who broke up the interference and frequently tackled the runner. There was still some fumbling, but on the whole the men played a careful game. They did not tackle cleanly, but managed nevertheless to choke up the line plays. On the offensive they did not play as well, allowing their opponents to break through. The interference was effective at times, but frequently failed to get the ends out of the way. Cutts and Blagden at tackles showed contrasting faults. Cutts paid too much attention...
...frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack in de face...