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...trim green Breguet planes, entered by the French Ministère de la Guerre, won the Liberty Motors Trophy Race (for observation planes) by a piece of teamwork, common enough in bicycle and running races, but unheard-of in the air. The first Breguet (Pilot, Captain d'Oisy) roared into the lead as a pacemaker, led off U. S. Pilot Henderson, while the second (Pilot, Captain Lemaitre) shot from behind...
...other ideas about his college career than a servile preparation for the examinations, and he declined the suggested change. This incident, not serious in its consequences because of the student's self reliance, is serious as an example of tutorial blindness, of which, unfortunately, it is not an unheard of instance...
...major games on its schedule is attributed by those on the inside at Soldiers Field to the niggardly policy of the H. A. A. in refusing to supply Joe with a megaphone. It is more than rumored that in many crucial moments last season his advice was unheard or if heard, wilfully ignored. For this reason, Joe is on the outs with the Fisher regime, and he declared last night in a statement to the CRIMSON that as far as he is concerned Harvard can lose every game on its schedule...
Nevertheless, we cannot but believe that Dean Jones has his tongue in his cheek, as the saying goes. Architectural monstrosities are not entirely unheard of at New Haven, and we are painfully conscious of a certain synthetic symmetry not a hundred miles from Plympton Street. But we have a feeling that there would be bloodshed at New Haven before the foundations of a campus skyscraper could be laid and, we would be tempted to assist at a little sniping among the structural steel workers ourselves if ever the construction rose above the third floor...
...Before the War, it was an unheard of thing for a Member of the Government to write for the newspapers, although Gladstone once wrote an article for a U. S. newspaper designed to "put before a vast body of working people a loftier ideal of life." For this he received...