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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leave the hotel at half past six and the trip down here takes about an hour. We have a lecture then, or fly if the weather is good till lunch-time, which is 10 o'clock for us. This morning we shot at the little balloons, two metres in diameter. This afternoon we do controlled shooting, that is we shoot one hundred cartridges at the balloon and then it is pulled down and the number of hits counted. Those who do well on their shooting get permissions after the course...
...flew till 11 o'clock and then went back to A--. I had one flight with P. R. We went up for combat work. It was certainly interesting, to say the least. Each of us tried to get into position where he could shoot the other. I would see him coming, for instance, and just as he got in range, perhaps 400 yards, and above and behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot...
...This morning at 10 o'clock one section went to lunch while the other section in which I was (eight of us) stayed to fly till 12. It had become cloudy and when I went up I had to climb through one stratum of clouds to where the target was being towed, at 1,200 metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine...
Once more the College Office proves its patriotism by allowing students who will enter war service to leave early. Those of us who are lucky enough to be enrolled in Uncle Sam's forces at any time after April 14 will receive full credit for the courses in which we have done creditably. This is not a wanton generosity on the part of the College; it is merely an award of work done well by men eager to do their part, but prevented by age or unavoidable circumstances. To have spent so much of a year in College...
...nations--in those vocations there is no outlook of social justice, or of righteous acquiescence in the other fellow's striving for the same standards that we seek for ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less Billy Sunday salvation and more Roosevelt social justice and Wilson democracy in the mill towns...