Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equipment of today is not the junk heap on wings that some people would make you believe it is," said able, active F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, to railroad men in New Haven, Conn., last week. He sketched the five-year aviation program, now under way: 2,000 airplanes, 1,650 flying officers, 500 flying cadets, 14,500 enlisted men-for the Army Air Corps before 1932. The Navy has a similar program...
...Haven last week Lorado Taft, U. S. sculptor who was born the year before the Civil War began, declared, before the students assembled in Sprague Memorial Hall for the final Trowbridge lecture, that: "As Americans we have a perfect and inalienable right to our ignorance...
...Princeton negative team, two judges voted for Yale, and one judge and the audience cast their votes for Princeton. It was then thought that in case of a tie, the vote of the audience should be discarded, and the decision for the evening was given to Yale. At New Haven, Harvard and Yale tied for the honors of the evening, and in Cambridge, Harvard received the unanimous decision of the judges and the audience over Princeton. Thus, since Harvard and Yale had each won one debate, they were declared tied. However, it has been recently disclosed that the Constitution...
Asked concerning the cause of the next war, General Fries, after stating all of the trivial causes that have precipitated the wars of the past, said. "You've heard what started the World War, haven't you? Here is what the Kaisor says about it: 'One day Theodore Roosevelt called on me, and after we bad joked for a while, he jovially slapped me on the back and said that I could lick the world; and I was foolish enough to try.' Who knows what the next war will be about...
...vacation. A skeleton team will be sent to the Penn Relays on April 30. There will then be the Edvin Wide exhibition on May 7 with the class meet; and the Dartmouth meet will follow here on May 14. On the 21st the trackmen will journey to New Haven and then close their American season in the Intercollegiates at Philadelphia on May 28. The two men who finsh first and second in every event but the discus, hammer and javelin will represent Harvard and Yale at the Oxford-Cambridge meet at Stamford Bridge outside of London on July...