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...contributed articles, that upon the Harvard Flying Corps by Mr. Frazier Curtis '98 is perhaps the most important. It presents clearly the need of the United States Army for trained aviators, and emphasizes the probability that Harvard men will have to furnish a competent air fleet, if the country is to have one at all. "Harvard and the American Wars," by Mr. Batchelder, gives us some interesting statistics and an amusing anecdote. The subject is worthy of a more comprehensive piece of work. Mr. Davis tells of impending better days for Harvard tennis with clearness and evident enthusiasm...
...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
Thus far, he said, the British fleet has protected America, but righteous citizens should not allow their peace and safety to be defended by a nation fighting for its life. The United States, on the country, should be anxious to help its mother country in its death struggle. France, as well, has aided us; has given us "the splendid light of its civilization. They all look to the United States, as a responsible nation, to do its duty...
...advocate a tremendous navy,--one large enough alone to repel any foe,--for we should be going to a most foolish expenditure, and of what value is a whole fleet when some new invention is suddenly thrust upon...
...army or navy, making it possible to discern movements of the enemy and to direct artillery fire. One man in the air is worth 100 on the ground. I believe that 100 aeroplanes would be sufficient for reasonable coast patrol and that 1000 would provide defense against any hostile fleet of aeroplanes. Yet 10,000 aeroplanes would cost less than 10 battleships...