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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course is intensive, only four months being required to turn out a finished aeroplane operator. The sum expended for the education of each man is about $1200, exclusive of board and lodging. The recruit wins a military brevet after spending twenty or thirty hours in the air, fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen minutes each morning and fifteen in the afternoon, according to weather. There are eight classes or grades from one to another of which the candidate progresses as his ability to manipulate the aircraft develops...
...more powerful, 45-horsepower Bleriot, which rises to a height of 100 feet. The novice must fly a mile in this and bring it to a landing with the engine shut off. The fifth class is the same machine, but with it the aviator must learn to turn corners and execute other more difficult moves. Vol-planing is attempted in the next stage of development, which calls for a Caudron biplane or a Bleriot monoplane. A height of 2000 feet is attained. Next the candidate takes an 80-horsepower model and flies as far and as high as he wishes...
Since only one competitor has answered the call for Class Day ticket designs, and no Baccalaureate Hymns have been turned in, the competition necessarily will be prolonged. The ticket designs probably will be due within a week, but about two weeks will be given for turning in the Baccalaureate Hymns. Competitors should turn in their work to W. Rollins '16, Thayer 49. 1916 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...work-out under Coach Mitchell's direction in the Baseball Cage yesterday afternoon. The men are now divided into two squads, which report for practice daily, each squad spending about an hour and three-quarters a day in the Cage. Yesterday, Coach Mitchell first gave the men a long turn at batting practice and then set them to work in pairs for practice in passing the ball. This was succeeded by fielding grounders and throwing to bases. A number of exceptionally clever stops were made, while the fielding of the ball was on the whole very clean...
...natural and proper that a young man of the twentieth century, in mapping out his college course, should turn towards subjects that offer new outlooks and new possibilities of investigation, not realized by preceding generations. The apparent remoteness of Greek and Roman civilization and the long accumulation of important criticism upon ancient art and literature have obscured the indubitable fact that the Classics present such opportunities in the same degree as Economics or Science...