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Four men have been lost to the Engineering Sciences Department because of the war. Associate Professor Howard Aiken taught only in the graduate school but the other three were essential cogs in undergraduate instruction. Associate Professor Den Hartog is now a Lieutenant Commander in the Bureau of Ships; Faculty Instructor William Bollay, formerly in charge of the CAA courses, is a Lieutenant in the engineering section of the Navy Air Corps; and Instructor John Hollomon is on active duty as a Lieutenant in the Army's ordnance department...
Among the other doing defense work are: Paul D. Bartlett, associate professor of Chemistry; Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy; Jocob P. Den Hartog...
...daily schedule provided for four hours of lectures and approximately one hour of flight training. The courses taught were: Theory of Flight by William Bollay, Instruments by Ben Hartog, Professor of Engineering, Meteorology by Dr. Lang of the Blue Hill Observatory, navigation by Fletcher Watson, instructor in Engineering, and Air Engines and Air Regulations by A. U. Puckett, instructor in Engineering...
...fundamental reason behind Germany's air preponderance over the Allies, and the United States as well, according to Den Hartog and Bollay, is not the quality of the pilot training but the quantity. Unless America expands rapidly both pilot training and aircraft production, "in 15 years we shall be in the same fix England is now," they asserted...
...Allies were short-sighted in not stopping Nazi militarism at the very first," Den Hartog remarked. "Now, because of their delay they are in a very bad position. For our own best interests, we should have backed the Allies strongly from the start." Believing that the Allies stand little chance now, he thinks that hope for the U. S. lies in "taking a strong stand in the Pacific and South America, to prevent seizures or penetration by Germany or Japan...