FLYING CORPS LEARNED AVIATION

Ten of the undergraduate members of the Harvard Flying Corps, which was organized last year, secured their licenses at the Curtis School of Aviation this summer. Flying in the Curtis biplanes of the J N R type the students were instructed in the various forms of land flying under the supervision of Lieutenant Phillips Roder of the British Royal Flying Corps. The school was admirably equipped with six machines and competent instructors and mechanics.

Following are the ten who secured their licenses: Frederick Stevens Allen '16, of Pelham Manor, N. Y.; Francis Inman Amory, Jr., '17, of Boston; William Bartlett Bacon '19, of Brookline; Edmond Elkins Bates '17, of Medford; Mahlon Philip Bryan '19, of Brookline; Hamilton Coolidge '19, of Brookline Donald Dunbar Harris '16, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Harry Hubbard Metcalf '17, of Westborough; Robert Hewins Stiles '16, of Fitchburg; and Joseph Rice Strong '16, of Worcester.

Five other members of the corps were in training at the Thomas School in Ithaca, N. Y. under the instruction of Frank Burnside, one of the most skillful of American aviators. The instruction was given exclusively on water machines. The machine used by the members of the Flying Corps was a D2 tractor, reconaisance type. The five men who received instruction at this school were Samuel Pierce Mandell, 2d, '19, of Hamilton, Mass.; William Henry Meeker '17, of New York, N. Y.; Kenneth Merrick '19, of Boston; Arthur Richmond '18, of Boston, and Herbert Pulitzer '19, of New York, N. Y.