Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
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Ignore. Students In colleges, high
schools ana even the elementary
schools are clamoring for intelli-
gent instruction in this new field
Of activity.
The response to this clamor has
been sporadic. Educational lead
ers are coming to the realization,
however, that for their own peace
of mind they are going to have to
put their heads together and de-
wise some fairly adequate method
Of satisfying the yearning Of the
young folks for knowledge about
this flying business.
Incidentally, it may be remark
ed, the craving Of the younger
generation for participation in
aviation-in almost any sort Of
capacity-is threatening to play
havoc with the pocketbooks of a
slightly older generation which
has Just about become educated,
slowly and painfully, to the un-
Outstanding that a collegiate car
is as much a part of the necessary
education equipment Of today as
a book strap and pencil box were
at the turn OF the century.
Wants Both Car and Plane.
This does not mean that the COL
lege student does not want his au-
tomobile. He does, But he also
wants his airplane. University
men are turning to the glider and
the airplane. Harvard seems to
have taken the Jump on other
universities in this respect. There
are Is prospective airplane pilots
at Harvard who go to the flying
field every day and work under
the direction of Robert B. Bell,
student aviation captain, the De-
partment of Commerce has been
notified. They have regular flying
schedules and own several planes.
Members of the Harvard Flying
Club expect to have a hangar
soon and repair shop in which
they can overhaul aviation mo-
tors and repair their own planes.
Last Fall an intercollegiate air
race was proposed to stimulate in
tereSt in college aeronauticS and
Grover c. Looming offered a cup
to be awarded to the winning
school. When it was found that
Harvard had the only team quail
fed to enter, the race was post
poned until such time as other
colleges might have something be-
side optimism to offer in Way of
competition.
College Association Formed.
The future Of college aeronau-
tics, however, was practically as
Sured when, during the course of
the intercollegiate aeronautical
conference held last Fall at Yale,
a National intercollegiate Aero
nautic Association was organized,
with representation from Yale,
Harvard, University of Pennsyl-
vania, Cornell, Massachusetts, In
stitute Of Technology, Carnegie
Technical Institute, University of
Illinois, Northeastern University,
New York University and Detroit
University.
Each of the universities repre-
Sented in the association has an
active aviation club and there are
some men in each club who know
how to fly and are teaching
others. Despite certain faculty OPP
position, the Yale Aeronautical
Society members are making con-
siderable progress. New York
University, which is the home of
the Daniel Guggenheim School of
Aeronautics, has an active club
comprising about so members,
some Of whom are enrolled in the
Army Air Corps Reserves.
Among the universities which
offer flying courses as a part of
their curricula are the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, New
York University, the University of
Minnesota, the College of Pacific,
Stockton, Calf: the University of