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After a test flight in a Curtiss single-seater pursuit airplane at Mineola, Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service, met with an accident on landing which might have had serious consequences. The landing gear or undercarriage of the plane struck a rut and broke; the machine did not overturn, however, and the General, with the promptness of a cavalryman, released his safety belt and jumped out, escaping with a severe shaking...
...personality when it was in the formative stage. Shelley's classmates did their best to force his queerness into the average path, but fortunately for posterity, his will was he stronger and they were unsuccessful. The normal while often more desirable than the abnormal is not always the best rut to travel. Smothering the individual, making him subject to the caprices of the majority, is the trend hazing takes; the "queer", but possibly the best traits of a boy in the stages of development may be twisted into perversion or cut from his nature altogether through his possible reactions...
...look upon the selection of a field of concentration. It the field first chosen prove unsuited, it appears a matter comparatively simple to change to another division, for the rules on that point are not very strict. But in later life it is harder to "get out of a rut", and the experience gained is very seldom worth the time spent. The man who has "tried his hand at everything" is generally to be found among the "aristocracy of the road...
...Guest, who has worked for 27 years on the Detroit Free Press, explained that there is nevertheless constant danger that a man may get into a rut in newspaper work, and cited his own experience as an example. "After I had been on a reporter's job for 15 years I found myself up against a brick wall, for I was getting nowhere," he declared. "That was why I began writing verse and why I am now enjoying what I have to do because it is creative. Although journalism affords the best training in the world for the man just...
...wider point of view than that usual in the mere "professional instructors". In full accord with the principles upon which the Harvard track system is based, Mr. Martin is "just the man to continue Mr. Bingham's good work and keep Harvard from slipping back into the old rut under a professional type of coach...