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Totally blind flying, solely by the aid of navigating instruments, became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
...Pearson Warner, Editor of Aviation, Mr. Ingalls' predecessor in the Navy Department : ''An epic of aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required thorough testing by an expert pilot before they could be judged." Harry Frank Guggenheim: "The results...
...first Institute of Comparative Law in the United States will be founded at Harvard this Fall to afford the students of law in the newly enlarged Harvard Law School a concrete basis of ideas from the law of other countries on which to build the legal reforms of the future...
...Institute of Comparative Law as recorded elsewhere in this morning's CRIMSON is a convincing demonstration of the ability of the Harvard Law School to more than hold its own in the rapid progress that has been made in the study of law during recent years. The first of its kind in the United States, the new Institute offers the opportunity of inspecting the results attained under legal methods quite unlike those in use in this country and yet possibly containing features of value for the American social system...
...indication of the team's defensive ability was given in this opening game. Bates never fought its way into enemy territory and lacked the man-power to test the Harvard line to any degree. The three first downs which the opponents were able to pound out, however, were largely the result of sloppy tackling. On the offensive the Crimson line did not show a consistent life. Players frequently cross-charged ineffectively, allowing opposing forwards to sift through and it was only the shifty running of the backs which prevented a resultant loss of ground...