THE FLYING CLUB RACES

Although the Harvard Flying Club has been dowered by entrance into the Hartford races with more publicity than its share during three years of useful activity, such participation is not the peak of the club's achievement during the present year. The value of airplane racing for the college pilot is open to question in the minds of others besides President Angell of Yale, who on Monday, although assigning no reason to his action, forbade Yale undergraduates from entering in any meet for an indefinite length of time.

It is true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been put on a sound basis. If the Club's development were restricted to this kind of inner strengthening rather than the hardiness of competition, the loss in adventure might find substantial compensation.