Aero Club to Award Prizes

Prizes in the form of medals of merit will be given during the coming year by the Aero Club of America to college students throughout the United States for essays on aeronautical subjects. The project is for the purpose of arousing interest in aerial preparedness. The medals are to be awarded in the coming year to three students in each of fifty universities and colleges which have an enrolment of over 2,000.

The essays are to be written on any one of the following three subjects: military aeronautics; mechanics of the aeroplane and possible technical development in aeronautics; possible application of aircraft for utilitarian purposes.

The good work of the 21 men from the University, the 12 Yale men, and not less than 50 members of other universities who learned to fly in the past summer caused the Aero Club of America to conclude that great developments may be expected in aeronautics from a utilitarian, scientific, as well as a national defense standpoint, through interesting the 200,000 university students to whom the contest is open.