Word: news
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring competitions for the CRIMSON board will commence on Wednesday, February 14, the week after mid-years. This will be the last opportunity for members of the Class of 1918 to try for the board, and the first opportunity for 1920. There will be five distinct competitions for the news and business staffs from the Sophomore and Freshman classes and for the editorial board from the Junior Class. This will also be the final news competition...
...work of the news competition will consist in obtaining all the important news of the University and preparing it for publication. The work affords the candidates an excellent opportunity for becoming familiar with the men prominent in all branches of University activities. It also gives a good training for a business or journalistic career...
Announcement by the Yale News that the United States government offers free instruction in military aviation to Yale undergraduates next summer is of general interest. Applicants may formally join the Aerial Flying Reserve of the United States and have their instruction free, or they may pay a small tuition and receive the instruction to qualify for pilots' licenses. There will be many to take advantage of both offers, no doubt. For the knowledge of how to operate a flying machine is going to be greatly in demand in a very few years. --New Haven Register...
...Illustrated radiates timeliness in its current number more than ever before, and forcibly substantiates the fact that it is the live and fast instrument for presenting pictorially the news of the minute at the University. Even the cover, showing a winter scene in the Yard with the Widener Memorial Library for the background, might have been photographed only yesterday afternoon...
Predominant in the group of news-and-picture articles is the essay that Professor Muensterberg contributed to the Illustrated a short time before his death. It analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade...