Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...
...step has been taken in accordance with the program of the department, which aims to give every Freshman an opportunity to join a sport for which he is fitted and which is to his liking. The change was decided upon in a conference between Major F. W. Moore '93, Dr. Paul Withington '09. Dr. R. L. Lee '02, and Mrs. W. H. Geer, Director of Physical Training...
Base Hospital No. 5, Which was made up largely of Harvard Medial School students, has presented to the University the colors carried by the Unit in France, claimed to be the first American flag to reach the other side. Major Henry Lyman '01, the last commander of the Unit, presented the flag to Professor David L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School, who in turn presented it to President Lowell for the University...
Membership in the "Y" Club at Yale has reached 150, and when the projected drive for members is over it is expected that this number will be materially increased. The "Y" Club was founded last spring to promote more interest in athletics at Yale, all candidates for major and minor sport teams being eligible for membership...
...means let tennis be recognized as soon as possible as a collegiate major sport, where it belongs by every law of popularity, of physical demands and of standards of skill, so that eventually the last vestige of that stigma which has so long marked is as "a mere social diversion," will have been removed forever. New York Times