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...Kirkland of Cornell won the acrobatic event, next on the program. The third event, landing to a mark, was captured by Pyne of Princeton. In the final event, the alert competition in which the aviators were required to dress in flying togs and prepare their planes for flight, Perry of Williams left the ground first, capturing first place...
...other five events which will be held are as follows: an altitude test, a take-off and landing to mark contest, a manoeuyring and acrobatic event, and an alert competition. This last event will be in the nature of an obstacle race. The contestants will prepare their machines for flight and dress in flying togs, the first man off the ground winning. R. Blynn Varnum, Unc., is entered in the acrobatics and manoeuvres; L. T. Lanman '20, in the landing to a mark; J. B. Garver, 1L., in the alert competition, and R. Tuckerman '20, in the altitude flight...
...practical value of a college education was vindicated, somewhat to the surprise of many skeptics who deprecated the worth of this type of training. In order to carry this wartime supremacy into the present time of peace, the undergraduate must keep his mind not only informed, but also keenly alert on current topics. Lectures by competent speakers on contemporary affairs are the best way to attain this result, and further series on other subjects should follow the present talks conducted by the Liberal Club...
There are six events on the schedule Friday afternoon, all of which are designed to test above all the proficiency of the fliers. The events and the men entered in them follow: 100-mile cross-country race, Kelton, Gregg; acrobatic and manoeuvring, Varnum; landing to a mark, Lanman; alert competition, Garver; altitude flight, Tuckerman; manoeuvres, Varnum. At a meeting of the Intercollegiate Flying Association Saturday prizes will be awarded the winners...
...peace and security. Some senators and representatives of the United States and other public men argue that we must take care of ourselves. When the conditions of the world proved to be such that the British Empire has been absolutely unable to take care of itself alone, when the alert and courageous French nation was all but strangled, when Russia with a hundred and sixty million people breaks into fragments, what guarantee has the United States of America that it will be free to take care of itself? Our soldiers made a splendid fight, and rendered the world a great...