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Yesterday's workout was a typical Monday practice session with a signal drill constituting the bulk of the work. Harper, Douglas, and Levin all were absent and these three will definitely miss the Army tilt. Richards, Myerson, and Movius all had a day off but they will be back in togs today...
...ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands...
Coach Horween's 1929 model of the Harvard University football team will take its final secret drill this afternoon preparatory to its inaugural tilt in the Stadium tomorrow. The practice today is expected to be light, probably a fortyfive minute session sufficing for the day's workout...
Most of the details of the scrimmage, held in the enclosed field, were withheld, but the practice was similar to that of Monday. Play was halted often during the informal tilt as the coaches attempted to catch all possible mistakes. Just what kind of plays were tried out is not known but it is probable that forward passing received a great deal of attention in order to perfect the promised overhead offense...
...Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba "proves" (by half-truths as well documented as Mother India's) that...