Word: england
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this meeting. Mr. Driggs has been a close student of flying conditions during the war, and has written several articles on these conditions. The second speaker will be Colonel L. H. Drennan, who addressed the Harvard Aeronautical Society several days ago. Colonel Drennan is Air Service officer for New England and is a member, exofficio, of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Aero Club. The members of the Harvard Aero Club will meet at a place to be announced tomorrow, and will go to this meeting in a body...
...France, England, Italy, and the Scandinavian countries have already started preparations for the training of their competitors. Judging from these preliminary trials, the accepted opinion in America that the United States will have an easy contest in the track events is by no means warranted...
...England is preparing for the games in a business-like way, and without going too closely into the cause of their Olympic deficiencies, it is possible to say that no repetition, of such incidents as those which happened in 1912 can occur next year. England is adopting the methods of other countries, and her men will be well equipped and carefully handled...
Spiked running shoes and cinder running paths are English inventions, and hurdle racing, shot-putting and hammer throwing likewise originated in the British Isles; yet, with all its just claims of priority in track and field events, England has never shown any marked superiority...
Five books by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 comprise the fourth section of the catalogue. These are discussions of English Literature from Chaucer through Shakespere, with a digression in the form of a book on "The Old Farmer and His Almanack." The literature of countries other than England is considered in the group headed "Belles-Lettres." A book that has just been put on sale is "Kostes Palamas! Life Immovable," a translation by Aristides E. Phoutrides '11, a former instructor at the University...