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...happening every day in aviation, but it is happening there more frequently than in any other department. We know of a generally used signal among Teuton and Allied aviators to postpone a struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible than it is now, but when...
...work of the Army and Medical Corps of the world, and at least as much space would be needed to describe with any completeness the vast body of scientific knowledge and skill used in the engineering feats that are witnessed almost daily when a drive is in progress. To move forward the vast armies with which we are familiar in the war conditions of today and to move them forward, as is, of course, necessary, with proper speed and with proper support, is in itself a scientific achievement of a high order demanding at every phase the exercise of first...
...conquer New York State seems ridiculous to us, but it is no more so than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state of affairs cannot last all winter...
...Such a move will be greatly appreciated by our college men. Permission to stay, even for a very short while, inside those universities, which have been a centre of intellectual progress for many centuries, will make a welcome change from the turmoil and worries of the front. Many Americans have no friends abroad with whom they can spend their leaves-of-absence, and since they are unable, unlike English-men to return home, any opportunity to breathe again a college atmosphere is certain to be eagerly sought. In a country where everyone is a stranger, a familiar environment helps...
...service there. It is understood that one of the topics which he will consider in his address is the question as to whether the United States will be drawn into a state of actual warfare with Austria, and the possible effect of the present Italian situation on such a move. At the conclusion of the lecture Mr. Halstead will answer any questions which may come...