Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Charles Edward Balch Felson '18, of Pittsfield, N. H., was killed on September 9 when the automobile which he was driving collided with another one near Portsmouth. N. H. Folsom's machine, which was running at high speed around a sharp curve, turned over twice, killing him instantly, but C. W. W. P. Heffenger '18, who was in the car with him, escaped uninjured. The accident occurred in the early morning...
...hurt, and, as he left the tent, was struck by an eclat from the second which made a ghastly wound in his hip and thigh. Fortunately one of the ambulances was near and he was hurried to the hospital and operated on with all possible speed...
...vessel which has been renamed the "Harvard" is 240 feet long and has a speed of about 20 knots. She will carry two two-pound guns, two one-pound guns, and a three-inch gun, and will patrol the coast, 150 miles out, from Barnegat, N. J., to Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. The undergraduate portion of the "Harvard's" complement will be composed of the following men: J. A. Burden '20, Russell Cobb '19, Haley Fiske '19, O. F. Flynn '19, L. K. Garrison '19, J. L. Leighton '19, E. S. Sherman '19, P. E. Stevenson...
Work on the coast patrol has been progressing rapidly, however, as in addition to a flotilla of high speed, light draft submarine chasers, which will be completed in five months, a large number of privately-owned boats have been offered to the Government, and the 10,000 men needed for this work are rapidly being secured. The present shortage men in the navy...
...standing out above the others. S. H. Johnson, who has been in the pitcher's box for Team A in the practice games in the cage is perhaps the best of the boxmen, but is a trifle wild, and G. H. Brecker, who has been showing plenty of speed, has also experienced the same difficulty. Of the other men, Robinson, Washburn and Newton have the edge and any of these may develop into a first-string pitcher. Robinson is the only left-hander among the candidates, and should prove a valuable member of the pitching staff...