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Reports from Washington had it that the names of F. Trubee Davison, Chairman of the National Crime Commission and Harold H. Emmons of Detroit, were being considered for appointment, one as Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the other as Under Secretary of Commerce for Air-two of the new jobs created by recent legislation in accordance with the recommendations of the Morrow Air Board last December. (TIME, Dec. 14, ARMY & NAVY...
...allegedly* more conscious of the merit of U. S. universities, but foundations and student exchange agencies had brought more foreign students to U. S. colleges.? The Russian Student Fund, Inc. (Manhattan) reported the impending graduation of 44 onetime refugees. The Commonwealth Foundation for British graduate students and the Davison scholarships for British undergraduates were more than ever popular. Conversely, exchange of students with German universities was rearranged for the first time since the War. The first scholarships for U. S. students at Japanese universities were founded (TIME, Feb. 15). Smith College sent 32 of its young ladies...
...FIRST YALE UNIT: A STORY OF NAVAL AVIATION (1916-19)- Ralph D. Paine*-Riverside Press. During the preparedness summer of 1916, a Sophomore at Yale named Trubee Davison convinced his parents that naval aviation needed more preparation than the Government was providing. He rented flying-boats, invited eight friends to spend the summer with him-and the first "Yale Unit" was organized...
...except for these two, everybody called everybody by his first name. The team work of a football field took the place of military discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were 28 trained flyers ready for war. Then Trubee Davison, their leader, crashed and broke his back, but from his bed, and later from his wheel chair, he still held the "Unit" spirit together, even when the members scattered to distant duties...
...Howard, son of Sir Esme Howard, present British Ambassador to the United States, has been awarded one of the three Henry P. Davison scholarships given each year to Cambridge University students, and has been assigned to Harvard for his excuse of study starting next fall...