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...plane undergoing test was a modified form of a similar plane that won the Pulitzer race at Detroit last year. It does not attain quite the enormous speeds made in the race, because military equipment has to be carried. But it is the fastest fighting plane in the world with a maximum speed of 171.7 miles per hour...
...system as a sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality...
Their last bill is ideally constituted to illustrate the virtuosity to which a great repertory theatre alone can attain...
...subscription of five dollars from each man, therefore, it is necessary that considerably larger subscriptions than that be made. The committee aims to secure an average of fifty dollars from each member of the class for this five year period or ten dollars a year from each subscriber. To attain this, many men should give more than the desired quota, but those who feel that they cannot reach that amount need not hesitate to subscribe less. The interest on the invested fund will be used to defray the expenses of annual gatherings at Commencement, for reunions and for the printing...
...concluding, Mr. Clark declared that one of the greatest contributions India can make to the world is the lesson in how to attain high intellectual and spiritual development in spite of comparatively little economic progress...