Word: across
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large stage is to be constructed across the Stadium, facing the bowl, with its front about 25 yards east of the western goal line. Work has already been started on the dressing shelters on Soldiers Field. There will be a seating capacity of 14,000 in the Stadium itself, and boxes built around the running track will accommodate 2,000 more. It is expected that at least $200,000 will be cleared above expenses, of which amount the greater part is to be donated to the American Red Cross, the balance going to the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps...
...copy of the Hawaiian volcano is circular in form, with a scale of one foot to 1,500 feet. Thus the complete model is about 15 feet across, and shows in relief Kilauea, Kilauea-Iki (little Kilauea), Halemauman (house of big fire), and the surrounding volcanic plateau...
Twenty-nine members of the University have signed up to join the American Ambulance Field Service in France. This contingent is scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux on May 19. Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed...
...figures perhaps prove little, but they have a very real interest, and we get a vivid impression that college friendships, as well as college intellectual training, count in public life when we see a picture of Speaker Clark and Mr. Mann, leader of the opposition, with their arms across each other's shoulders at a college fraternity reunion. Boston Herald...
...clock the companies were marched individually to the field, and for an hour went through company drill. At about 4.45 o'clock the three majors took command of their battalions, and for the next half-hour the men were put through battalion maneuvers. At 5.30 the regiment formed across the field in line of battalions for retreat, and the impressive ceremony was performed without a hitch. Immediately afterwards the companies passed in review before Captains Cordier, Bowen, and Shannon, and then marched back to headquarters with the band...