Word: plane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Flying Corps, according to word which has just been received in a letter written by him from France, brought down his first German airplane on December 16. The exact sector in which he was engaged is not known. The despatch states that he got so near to the enemy plane that he could see the red cheeks of his Boche enemy, a shot from his machine fun sending a bullet through the German's head. The Boche was a man of great reputation in the Allied camps because of the daring piloting he had done in many close encounters...
Several undergraduates are now petitioning the Department of Engineering Sciences to reopen the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, N. H., this summer. Last year no camp was held on account of the war, but in previous summers an eleven-weeks' course in plane, topographic and railroad surveying has been given at Squam Lake. Credit for one and one-half courses is allowed by the College Office for the completion of the eleven-weeks' work...
...expected that the fourth plane will arrive in Princeton within about a week and a half, immediately after which a fourth class in the Corps will be opened. The instructor for this fourth course has not yet been determined...
...equality of men -- and we all do in our better moods -- to see those who in the more artificial and constrained social order of the college would never have occasion to meet, and would never form an intimacy should they meet, working together on a just and natural plane of parity. The distinctions of class, of race, of money, poor and trivial as they are, have vanished...
...have to some extent erected against the tides of democracy. It would be wrong to hope that every man in uniform will hail another as a kindred spirit, to be granted his friendship and his intimacy. Yet we know that true men will see other men on a plane of equality...