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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...
...Officers' Material School graduates. President Lowell, Rear Admiral Wood, and Captain P. W. Hourigan, Commandant of the School, will speak at the graduation exercises in Sanders Theatre at 3 o'clock. The newly commissioned officers will be placed on inactive duty, unless they apply, in accordance with a recent order from Washington, for temporary commissions in the regular navy...
Major 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...
...only will all kinds of text-books be accepted in the text-book and clothing collection of Phillips Brooks House, but special emphasis will be laid on contributions of fiction works, magazines, and other literature. This is in accordance with a recent cable message from Herbert Putnam '83, Librarian of Congress, now in France, which reads as follows: "Urge everything possible to stimulate book and magazine donations--need never greater than present--at least million more fiction and miscellaneous books demanded within next six months to maintain army morale...
...have read with interest a delightfully cartooned article with a Latin title, which bore the signature "John Gallishaw" and appeared in the recent issue of the Harvard Magazine (White). It seems to be fashionable lately to cast aspersions on Senator Lodge. "Wily, plausible, insincere" he is called by our dean. Anything so vital as the proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once...