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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Aeronautical Society, which was founded in 1908, is one of the oldest aviation organizations of its kind in the country. From experimenting with the old type of glider, the society has done much interesting work with motor planes, which has culminated in the recent purchase of a seaplane and in plans to train pilots for service at Framingham...
...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
Similarly, every type of person, every touchy weakness--of "us mortals," is picked up, held to public gaze, ridiculed and thrown in the discard. It is certain that one person alone would not enjoy this play; but when comfortably seated in the midst of a large audience, it is as delightful as it could be, for then one is sure that it is always the 'other person" at whom the missile is aimed. It seems to be somewhat of a case of "You can make some of the people wince all of the time, all of the people some...
Since the war the government has made every encouragement toward equitation instruction for the mounted branches of the service that have R. O. T. C. Units where facilities are available for caring for mounts; going eventually to the extent of supplying the small type horse suitable for polo. Yale has acquired approximately twenty of these mounts somewhat superior to the type available at the government purchase price. The additional funds going toward the purchase of the better type came mainly through the good efforts of an outside generous enthusiast...
...efficient, and who also are not busy with any extensive outside activities during the spring. These men would be the Chairman, the Treasurer, the Spread Manager, and the Yard Man. Of course there are many other ways of appointing or electing these men, but they should be the type of man that I have mentioned above. If it is desired to honor men who are more popular or more prominent in athletics, this could easily be done by enlarging the Class Committee from two to seven...