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Anthony H. G. Fokker, maker of airplanes, in his native Holland, and in the U. S.,* was prevailed upon last week to talk commercial flying. He said some revealing things. He said that France is the best equipped nation in the world, at this point, for turning out flying machinery, but that the U. S. will soon catch her up. He said that Germany, though restricted in plane manufacturing by the Treaty of Versailles, has established many a big factory outside her boundaries, and is "without equal" for training efficient civilian pilots at present. He said, after having brought...
...their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world of tomorrow which must be different because he wills it so; if they will only stand erect before him, in no pride of authority, but with unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world...
Owen D. Young, famed co-maker of the Dawes Plan, arrived in Manhattan from Europe last week, was greeted by rumors that he might be the next Democratic candidate for Governor or Senator. Mr. Young replied...
...Captain Tibbetts ran away from the field in the two mile run with E. C. Haggerty '27 chasing him all the way to the tape, to smash his own record by one and a fifth seconds. His time was 9 minutes 42 3-5 seconds. The other Harvard mark maker was C. A. Pratt '28, who sailed the discus 135 feet, nearly 10 feet better than the old record. Covert of Dartmouth beat the old javelin record by better than ten feet, and Moody added an inch to the high jump mark...
...reading TlME for April 5, I found on p. 10, col. 2, a certain statement concerning the education of Raymond T. Maker. In that statement it reads: "and the slightly more sophisticated Leland Stanford University," comparing it with the University of Nevada. I realize that there are colleges and universities in California which overestimate themselves, but I think that Stanford does not deserve that adjective applied...