Word: war
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Major General Squire, Chief of the Signal Corps and Director of Aviation during the war, has approved of the intercollegiate flying contests which are to be held at Atlantic City this spring and summer. According to a recent despatch he said, "I strongly favor the plan. This proposition offers a new and chivalrous sport for the Colleges to compete in, and I ardently hope that the scheme will be a success. There are thousands of men in the colleges who have been fliers in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Air Service so there is an abundance of material...
During the war the navy has been increased many fold, and has needed a corresponding increase of radio operators. But when it is considered that at one time there were nearly five thousand students in the school, it seems indicative that Cambridge has been a gathering place for the unfortunates of the navy...
...College was only too willing to let Uncle Sam utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they...
...between them and the Government. If he really believes in the justice of a wage of ten dollars per week, if he truly appreciates the difficult situation into which the New England public has been thrown, and if as he says he wishes to be loyal to the War Labor Arbitration Board, he can at once submit the whole matter to the Board itself for impartial review, and probably thus end the strike. Altogether it appears to be a case of the tactlessness and obstinacy of one man in the face of a multitude who sincerely believe themselves to have...
...Columbia University in which three branches of military science and tactics--infantry, artillery, and signal corps work, --will be taught in co-operation with the regular graduate and undergraduate work of the university. It has been announced by that university that, in accordance with the plans of the War Department which is arranging to establish military schools in universities and colleges throughout the country, Columbia hopes to create a large body of trained officers, whose numbers will be increased with every graduating class, and who will be trained and ready for active service if the United States should again...