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...world's record for engine endurance. This is equivalent to 60,000 miles in a Navy seaplane flying at usual cruising speed (or two and a half times round the world at the equator). Measured against the average record of 6,500 miles per annum of a high grade automobile, it represents nine years' unbroken service at 100 miles per hour. During the war engines scarcely ran 100 hours without overhaul. This tremendous improvement means greatly increased dependability and lessened cost of operation for every type of airplane...
...field of major study, and at the close of the Senior year; a similar test will be given covering the work done in the major study during the two year period. Before being granted a degree, however, candidates will be required to pass their comprehensive examinations with a grade substantially higher than the passing mark formerly demanded for credit in a course...
...thorough-going three-year course will be necessary to train the future mediums; one can imagine the high-sounding titles of "Ectoplasm 56" or "Photography A" or "Ventroliquistics 10". The entrance requirements are designed to develop that democratic student body appropriate to such a science--anyone with a grade-school education is eligible. And at the end, the successful scholars receive certificates proving that they are certified mediums. This is expected to put the "fake" mediums completely out of business;--a step of public benevolence on the part of the Association...
Yale is to have a scholarship, endowed by John Hays Hammond, available for the Mexican making the highest grade in the College Board Entrance Examinations which the Yale Club of Mexico has successfully instituted in the City of Mexico. The scholarship covers expenses and travel from the Mexican border. The Mexican Department of Public Instruction is to provide transportation to the border...
...Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary, which affiliated last spring to form the new Theological School, he states that hitherto it has been the custom of the Divinity School and of Andover Seminary to award scholarships of from $250 to $400 to any student who has an average grade of at least B. The bulk of the students in both schools have been in the past recipients of such scholarship help...