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...decision that the Aeronautical Society is to place entries in the races of the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournament calls attention to the increasing importance of aviation and the role it will play in the future. In a recent editorial, the New York Tribune states, "Undoubtedly the Intercollegiate Aerial Tournaments will receive government support. Should there be another war the colleges will be able to turn out hosts of trained eaglets of the type of Quentin Roosevelt and Hobey Baker, ready for service. Trained collegiate aviators will make the United States air service a real factor the next time it is called...
...second of this year's series of Phi Beta Kappa dinners will take place on Friday at 6.30 o'clock in the Trophy Room at the Union. Mr. Harold J. Laski, sometime Fellow at New College, Oxford, will speak on the subject: "The possibilities of a university." All members of the Phi Beta Kappa, whether members of the University chapter or not, are invited...
...General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material to work...
...that there is justice in their demands, but does not seem to like their plea for complete impartiality as between them and the Government. If he really believes in the justice of a wage of ten dollars per week, if he truly appreciates the difficult situation into which the New England public has been thrown, and if as he says he wishes to be loyal to the War Labor Arbitration Board, he can at once submit the whole matter to the Board itself for impartial review, and probably thus end the strike. Altogether it appears to be a case...
...still remains the second largest amount ever called for by the United States Government. Plenty of hard work is necessary to make a success of this loan, but that it can be done we have not the slightest doubt. N. PENROSE HALLOWELL '97 Executive Chairman, Liberty Loan Committee of New England...