Word: pau
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Letters describing the death of W. H. Meeker '17, who was killed in an aeroplane accident at Pau in France last September have been published by the Alumni Bulletin. The following extract concerning the details of his death was written by Lieutenant G. DeC. Chevalier, U. S. N., on September...
...primary object of the Corps is to start a training school for military aviators. As the best school of this sort is maintained by the French Army at Pau, it is planned to model this one directly along those lines...
...Pau the course is intensive, only four months being required to turn out a finished aeroplane operator. The sum expended for the education of each man is about $1200, exclusive of board and lodging. The recruit wins a military brevet after spending twenty or thirty hours in the air, fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen in the afternoon, according to weather. There are eight classes or grades from one to another of which the candidate progresses as his ability to manipulate the aircraft develops...
Score--Freshmen 5, St. Paul's 2. Goals--Percy 4, Shreiber, Conover, Marshall. Referee--G. P. Milne. Goal Umpires--Strawbridge, Bond. 20-minute periods. FRESHMEN. ST. PAU'S. Morgan, Dunmore, l.w., r.w., Robinson, Alcott Condon, Rice, l.c. r.c., Conover Percy, Pratt, deRham, r.c. l.c., Henriques Taylor, Percy, r.w. l.w. Ingalls, Walton Pratt, Taylor, c.p. c.p., Marshall Gardner, p. p., Schreiber Gwathmey, Martin, g. g., Stuart