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...engine, with its 4, 6 or 8 cylinders set in a line, or its 6, 8 or 12 cylinders arranged in a deep V. has much less wind resistance than the radial airplane motor. Cooling by water requires bulk and weight, yet many a large and powerful plane uses Packard and Curtiss water-cooled models...
...Packard Motor Car Co.'s President Alvan Macauley last week said that by the end of March he would be manufacturing the new Packard-Diesel airplane motor. That will be a milestone, the first Diesel-type (oil-burning) airplane motor developed...
...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
There will be separate trials, in the nature of five minute speeches, for each debate, all Freshmen being eligible for these trials. The trials for the first debate will probably be held on March 11. It was also announced by Assistant Professor F. C. Packard '20 that a prize of $50 will be awarded to the debater who delivers the best speech in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate...
...Speaking Prizes, will close on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Holden Chapel. All Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing are eligible. The only requirement is that memorized selections, about five minutes in length, from some standard piece of literature, must be approved by Professor F. C. Packard...