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...only a lecture. The lectures are very good, explaining the different sights used on guns to allow automatically for target deflection and shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started to turn his machine and all the controls...
...Here it is nearly Christmas time. Just four months ago today I took my first flight. And now I have nearly finished my training. I am flying the little chasse monoplane machines, and have finished acrobatics. Some sensations! The vrille or spinning nose dive, where the machine falls perpendicularly, spinning around, its longitudinal axis as it falls; the renversement where you give a jerk and a kick which flops you on your back and then complete the loop and come out traveling in the opposite direction, the quickest way to turn around; and lastly, the side slip, where you turn...
...relay, too, will in all probability go to the Elis, as they recently failed by only three seconds of equaling the intercollegiate record. The University must pin its hopes of winning points on the plunge, in which the New Haven men are said to be weak, and the dive, in which there should be a close contest...
...will be wanted for the plunge, dive, the relay, the 50 and 100-yard dashes, and probably for the 220-yard dash...
Before we seize our satchels and dive into the subway to leave Cambridge for ten days of food and rest from nine o'clocks and other terrors of a college existence we should make sure that we have not forgotten to say Merry Christmas and good-bye to our friends among the fifty-one fortunates who are leaving us for Yaphank. These men are starting down the path that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await...