Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing unpopularity of college competition is not shown only in a dispersion of candidates over a wider field, and segregation of a few into many places, but by the aggregate number of aspirants for posts in the activities. This is smaller than five years ago. Not only are the students becoming more precious and demanding in their choice, but they are becoming increasingly chary of sharing any part of themselves with an organization, just for a ribbon to stick in their coats. They are not grinds, or fly-by-nights; they simply know that they are going to do what...
...lacrosse competition, open to all Sophomores, begins this week. The competition will consist of three weeks work this fall and three weeks in the spring, the winner to be announced before the Spring Vacation. Candidates are to report at 3.45 o'clock in the lacrosse room at the Soldiers Field locker building...
...newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...
Fool Proof. Conspicuous among the hundreds of planes at the National Aeronautical Exposition at Mines Field, Los Angeles, was a stubby little contraption which the curious observed had no horizontal stabilizer, but a "stagger" so pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs...
Autogyro. A queer looking contrivance appeared above the Paris field Le Bourget last week, descended almost vertically, fluttered gently, birdlike, to the cement take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long...