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...most important of these contests. It is hoped that there will be a great number of entries from the members of the Army and Navy who have returned to college, and who will thus have an opportunity to continue flying and develop aeronautics as an intercollegiate sport. During the war, many colleges had ground courses where aviators were trained and it is hoped that by stimulating an interest in flying, all of the colleges and universities will assist in fostering the advancement of this new branch of intercollegiate competition,--a sport which should take its place with rowing and football...
...organization of a "Y" Club for Yale athletes were completed. Contrary to the conception given by the name, the club is not meant to be exclusively for men who have won their letter, but for all members of the University who are trying for any major or minor sport team. It is also planned to have training tables for every branch of sport as far as possible...
...order to promote the sport of trapshooting and to increase interest in the use of the scatter gun, the pistol and the high and low power rifle, the Harvard Gun Club is being reorganized. The committee active in this work are H. O. Apthorp '20, R. Fiske, Jr., '20, A. D. Hamilton '21, and E. C. Storrow, Jr., '21, who state that it is their intention to reopen the club-house on Soldiers Field, to install traps, and to begin shooting early in May. Most of the shoots will be open not only to members...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee, it was decided to establish an informal training table for members of the crew and baseball squads, at which one meal will be served every day to each squad. The wording of the resolution reads as follows: "The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sport approves for the present the plans of the members of the baseball team for daily lunches together and of the members of the crew for daily dinners together, and further authorizes the Athletic Association to contribute towards the cost of these meals in the case of men who cannot afford...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...