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...twenty-fifth anniversary gift of the class of 1925 by means of an endowment insurance on much the same plan as last year was announced yesterday by the officers of the Senior class. The plan, which contemplates a goal of $150,000 as a minimum, is of the participating type and involves the purchase of policies of $250, $500, or $1000 by individual members from the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford at a premium of about $10 a year...
This particular type of endowment insurance was chosen after a careful investigation started last December by a committee composed of the officers of the Senior class and under the direction of B. F. Rice Bassett '25. Careful consideration was given to the method of collecting the contributions, to the investment of the funds and to the possibility of lapse of contribution...
...This type of suit is not new (TIME, Jan. 26). The interest lies in the reported success of the present suit. Its inventor is said to have spent 50 minutes in it at 460 feet and 20 minutes at 525 feet.†The tests were made at Walchen Lake, in the Bavarian Alps...
Sikhism is the world's newest great religion; is, in many respects, the world's purest. Its locale is Northwestern India (Punjab, etc.) and its personnel, about 2,000,000-a sturdy, rugged, effectual type not found elsewhere in the Indian Empire...
...steady development work. While every new device is constantly being tried and suggested, progress in aero engines seems to consist in improvement of existing features, with gradual changes only. The strongest steel alloys are used throughout. Many parts are made totally of duralumin. The valve mechanism of the overhead type is driven by a cam system and placed in a housing of the lightest possible construction. The cylinders are of larger bore and shorter stroke than the old Liberty motors so that the height of the motor is diminished. The exhaust valves working in the terrific heat of the outgoing...