CABOT SPEAKS AT MEETING OF AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY

Plans for an intercollegiate league to promote airplane racing received a big impetus Tuesday evening at the banquet of the Harvard Aeronautical Society held in the Union. The two speakers, Mr. Godfrey L. Cabot '82, president of the New England Aero Club, and Lieutenant-Colonel Drennan, in charge of the air-service of the Department of the North-east, both expressed themselves in favor of such a league.

"I think that the Association of college aeronautical societies would have the same tendency to arouse and maintain interest in flying as intercollegiate leagues do in athletics," said Mr. Cabot. "All college men who are interested in flying and anxious that America's air forces have an eminent place in the world will appreciate having an intercollegiate league behind them. And it is up to your society, as the senior aeronautical society in the American college world, to take the initial steps in this direction."

Society May Have Use of Plane.

Although Mr. Cabot has expressed himself previously as opposed to college aviation because of its risks and expense, he explained last night that he believed that these two objections could be obviated. Plans are now under way to make it possible for the Harvard Aeronautical Society to have the use of a plane without great cost; and the adoption of stringent flying rules would do much to lessen the danger.

Lieutenant-Colonel Drennan, after explaining the plans for consolidating the Army and Navy air services, also expressed himself as in favor of intercollegiate competition, giving for his principal argument in its favor the fact that it would create the interest among the colleges and the public necessary to insure America's pre-eminence in the air.