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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAWKER'S GREATER SERVICE. | 5/28/1919 | See Source »

Senior who have not yet made out pledges can get them at any hour of the lay in the CRIMSON Building, or can notify the Treasurer, who will send them by mall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniro Notice | 5/27/1919 | See Source »

...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN J. CHAPMAN ATTACKS ABOLITION OF CLASSICS | 5/26/1919 | See Source »

...which is in session now, M. Jean Finelle, General Secretary of the International Bureau and Instructor at the College SainteBarbe at Paris, will make a tour of the colleges and universities of this country. He will explain the purposes of the Congress to the American students and professors, and get suggestions and advice for the future policy of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS' MEETING IN PARIS | 5/23/1919 | See Source »

...class, but all these functions would not be complete were they not crowned by this much heralded frolic. The College Office has let down the bars. It behooves every Senior to set his Big Ben for an early rising and be present tomorrow morning when the merry picnickers get under way at the early hour of eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LETS GO, SENIORS." | 5/22/1919 | See Source »

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