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...opportunity to continue flying and develop aeronautics as an intercollegiate sport. During the war, many colleges had ground courses where aviators were trained and it is hoped that by stimulating an interest in flying, all of the colleges and universities will assist in fostering the advancement of this new branch of intercollegiate competition,--a sport which should take its place with rowing and football...
Alan R. Hawley, President of the Aero Club, stated that, besides the University, Yale, Columbia, and the College of the City of New York, were organizing teams to compete and that other universities were holding meetings of their aviators with a view to making entries in the contests. "Possibly the most celebrated heroes of the war were the airmen of all nations," said Mr. Hawley. "America is particularly proud of the record of the Lafayette Flying Corps, which contained many college men. Among the Aces of the American Army besides the famous Captain Eddie Rickenbacker are Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, Lieutenant...
Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of "The Nation," who has just returned from a four and one-half months' trip to France, Switzerland, and Germany, in an interview in New York, stated that nothing had impressed him more than the growing dissatisfaction with the press...
...between Japan and China are illustrations of how the press has been injured since the war began by the censorship and by government concealment of news. Never again will it speak with the authority it once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half the public buildings of Europe, there never was as much need of a free, fearless, and independent press as today...
...addition to the park shown in the left, of the picture on the other side of the Charles, the plans include the widening of Massachusetts avenue by placing the sidewalk under arcades to be constructed in existing buildings on the southern side of the avenue; the establishment of new building lines on Harvard square itself, thus increasing the size of the Square; the widening of Boylston street by taking ten feet on the easterly side between Harvard square and the river; the construction of a hotel opposite the site of the Widener Library, with an adequate assembly hall and convention...