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...Here our obvious general policy should be to maintain our naval aviation in due relation to the fleet. Our national policy calls for the establishment of the air strength of our army primarily as an agency of defense...
...helps a little to explain Princeton's superiority over Harvard. For some reason Harvard does not seem able to play football more than a little bit. But why? Harvard is a large institution with a good many youths in it; a fair proportion of them, no doubt, husky and fleet. She has a stadium; training talent can be engaged and can usually be found. Then why does not Harvard play better football...
...special feature of the "M" boats, of which the M-1 was the first, consists in the fact that they are the only submarines which are equipped with a regular 12-inch dreadnaught gun. Thus a fleet of such "monitors" might slip into an enemy port unobserved, possibly during the absence of the enemy fleet, and deliver a bombardment of dreadnaught calibre at close range before effective measures could be taken against them...
...laid up with a knee injury that will keep him out until the Yale game. His place in the University outer defense will be taken by A. F. Parrott '28, Freshman captain of a year ago. W. R. Gherardi '28 is out for the season, and the fleet wing's position will be filled by N. R. Danielian...
Continually on the move, keeping safely away from government boats, and luring them into long pursuits that exhaust their fuel, the runners from shore are trying to reach the beleaguered fleet in time to land their cargoes for the Christmas holidays...