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...will note the date line of this letter, and I am quoting from your issue of Sept. 7; five days have elapsed and seldom happens that I am unable to get my copy each week...
Because of the impaired coordination of their nerves under pressure, the liability of their hearts to variation, and their general inclination toward giddiness, women seldom function as airplane pilots. Occasionally, in flying circus outfits, women have capitalized the fact that their sex is, in the air, a freak, and accepted large sums of money to perform comparatively safe flights. But never in the history of aeronautics, until last week, had a woman publicly announced that she would fly a speed plane in a great race. Miss Ruth Gillette of Los Angeles entered her Sikorsky Messenger...
...scoring distance. It does not help very much to gain ground in mid-field if the offence is going to collapse when it is in the opponents territory. There were indications on Saturday which should lead us to expect this team to make the most of its opportunities which seldom come in abundance in the course of a game...
...many adult readers. Imagine undergraduates assuming to serve as critics of their teachers! The idea, if it could even have been conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already, and stands well qualified to assess the value and wisdom of all one's elders...
...today, has never restrained boys and girls in college from discussing, among themselves, the merits and demerits of this or that course of study, or of this or that professor. On the contrary such conversation always goes on at our colleges. The only limitation is, that it is seldom very carefully thought out, in the give-and-take of ordinary speech, and is almost never overheard by the professors themselves or by the reigning authorities, who might conceivably receive some benefit from it. This being the case, why should not an undergraduate newspaper seriously endeavor to bring into its columns...