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Year by year aviation grows safer. But whenever a builder experiments with a new design, even if greater safety is the objective, there is the dangerous job of flight-testing it. Some time during the process the chief test pilot and chief engineer must take the plane up to see what strains it will stand...
...afternoon last week at Wayne County Airport, near Detroit, three officials of Stinson Aircraft Corp. flew a new type Stinson tri-motor. The three were Chief Engineer Arthur Saxon, 29, who had been eight years with Stinson, helped design its first plane; his assistant, Samuel Benson; and Chief Test Pilot Owen Pinaire. With two tons of lead ballast in the cabin, they wanted to try the plane's stability...
There is no doubt that the benefits derived from tutorial work vary widely and if some easy administrative test of selection could be devised which would restrict the tutorial privilege to those who would make the best use of it, I should favor its adoption. The movement now under way for a "pass degree" with optional tutorial work, however, seems to me exceedingly dangerous, partly because it involves a lowered standard for the unawakened and lazy, but, more important still, because it strikes directly at what I consider the great merit of the present system: the discovery of latent powers...
...Varsity hockey team will swing back into action again tonight when it meets the Brae Burn Hockey Club in the Boston Garden at 8.30 o'clock. The clash will serve as a pre-Dartmouth game test for the Crimson squad which has been out of competition for nearly three weeks because of mid-year exams. No contest was originally scheduled for this date...
Because of the insidious nature of the anemia, all men who have had grippe and are not feeling perfectly well after it are urged to report at the office of the medical adviser for a hemoglobin test, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock if possible. The disease can be easily detected and treated, the adviser declares...