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Permission has been granted by Dean Greenough for aviators representing the University to leave tomorrow night for Atlantic City, where they will take part in the second series of week-end intercollegiate air races now being held there in conjunction with the Second Pan-American Aeronautical Exposition, under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. Owing to their inability to secure a machine the University aviators did not take part in last Saturday's race...
...this house rendered a valuable service to the men who had only a limited amount of time outside of their military duties for recreation, reading, writing, and hospitality. Through the efforts of the hostess who was located at the house a great many men were entertained at dances, week-end parties, dinners, sight-seeing excursions, and so forth...
...only is much time being lost regularly on the unnecessarily strict observance of routine, but the officers in some cases regard this as the "open season" for all week-end leaves of absence. Trivial infractions are punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result...
...gives the S. A. T. C. a large assemblage of guns upon which to work in training men for the field artillery. Also the Yale Naval Unit has received two power driven boats and two schooners, each accommodating about 50 men, so that it will be possible to make week-end cruises on which the men may gain practical experience in navigation...
...record practice shooting at Wakefield over the week-end, the Third Battalion, with an average of 114.4 failed to equal the marks of 119.8 and 119.2 set by the First and Second Battalions, respectively, thus yielding the title of the Regiment to the former. The record of B Company, with 124 average, has also been unsurpassed, although closely approached by both F and H Companies of the Second Battalion, who averaged...