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...students receiving the highest average in Ground School will be selected for flight training this summer, and upon passing the Flight Physical Examinations, will be ordered to Squantum for 45 days' active duty...
Lieutenant R. D. Thomas, chief of the United States Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum, will again be in charge of the course this year. Lieutenant Thomas received the Shiff Trophy for Safe Flying, which was presented by President Colidge in 1925. He is credited with flying 500 hours without an accident in that year, the best record in the history of the naval air service...
Traffic policemen in Dorchester and Squantum were surprised last evening to see a mist rising out of the sidewalks, something they had not seen before. A more than clever member of the Squantum, or the Dorchester, force, remarked that the mist was in a sense a significant item and seemed really romantic. But the captain at the desk suggested that there was in it more the suggestion of a classic influence. So both played checkers for two hours in the hope of solving the problem...
...that spirit of learning so much a part of college life for policemen are, in a sense collegians. Both then drank ginger beer to the health of learning and smiled at each other over the checker board. Though seven people were shot in Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much more to do with conjugal bliss than the spirit of learning but "policemen...
...service men of Boston and vicinity. The guests of honor will be Captain Horace Heison of the Army; Major C. H. Wooley, of the National Guard; Captain Christopher Ford, Captain Bartlett Beaman, both of the Army air force; Lieutenant Reginald D. Thomas commander of the Naval Air Base as Squantum; and Lieutenant Charles Green...