Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home of the legend that is "Copey"--and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston. Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president--is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture...
...home of the legend that, is "Copey"-and no disrespect is meant by Harvard men when they thus nickname their Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratorv; but rather affection, for he would sooner be "Copey" than president- is up a high but never arduous flight of steps, on the top floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed...
...Lady continued across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
...course has been divided into six parts. The theory of flight will be followed in order by lectures on "Aviation of Introduction," "Scouting" "Aircraft Instruments," "Aerology" and "Practical Flying," with three or four lectures to each division...
During the flight training period the men will be enrolled as second class seamen, and are paid an average stipulation of about $90 a month. The enrollment last year numbered over 200. Twenty men were selected for the practical part of the course. This year, due to a governmental ruling which limits the entire number to 22, only seven men from this district will be taken from the Ground School...