Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This sort of thing is not happening every day in aviation, but it is happening there more frequently than in any other department. We know of a generally used signal among Teuton and Allied aviators to postpone a struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible...
...must have athletic for all in the colleges now, and I know that at Harvard and Yale that is the trend of the day. You can hear it on all sides and you can see that the students want it by reading their college papers. Everybody should be out playing, building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good...
Just now we hope to beat the Germans and make the world a sage place in which to live, but we can at present merely hope; by the end of this year we shall know that such a victory is assured...
There may be some satisfaction--though we doubt it--to know that the progress of cold waves is "due to thee gravity of the hydrostatic pressure due to the weight of the air in the rear of a volume of cold air advancing from the northwest, resulting from the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis, giving a centrifugal force to the denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent...
Freshman manager candidates will be called also on February 11. Five positions will probably be open to competition, those of manager, assistant manager and managers of the three dormitory nines. No previous experience is necessary and any men who wish to know more about the competition should speak to R. McA. Lloyd '19, Randolph 37. There will be no position of second assistant manager open to Sophomores, but any members of this class with experience in baseball management who would like to assist in the work will be welcome...