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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are at the present time only two other groups in America like the Flying Club. The University flyers, however, still are the only collegiate organization and they have been receiving inquiries from various colleges throughout the country concerning their methods of maintaining an airplane for members use. The other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AERONAUTS CLOSE SUCCESSFUL YEAR | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

The most important improvements this year are in the equipment of the camp. Electric lights have been installed in the class rooms and drafting rooms in place of the acetylene lamps which have often in the past proved a source of annoyance to students. New tents have also been put...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVEMENTS TO MARK 1927 ENGINEERING CAMP | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

The meet, which has become a permanent fixture of Harvard post-season track events, is sponsored by the Harvard Athletic Association with a view to stimulating interest in track athletics among the high schools of Massachusetts which until recently have been behind those of the middle Atlantic and Western states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 480 ATHLETES CONTEND FOR HIGH SCHOOL TITLE | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

Resurrection (Rod La Roque, Dolores Del Rio) is a powerful and thoroughly satisfying picturization of Count Leo Tolstoy's novel. Under the adept direction of Edwin Carewe, abetted by Count Ilya Tolstoy, the tale of nice and unnice love, betrayal and soul-redemption is spun deftly and irresistibly to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

The chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: How to Fly | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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