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When the U. S. took Porto Rico from Spain in 1898 and made it an adjunct of the War Department, the island's population was suffering from four degrading centuries of misrule, neglect and exploitation. Quick crude efforts by hack administrators to '"Americanize" these people, part Spanish, part Negro, produced more resentment than results. In less than two years, however, Governor Roosevelt has done more to win their confidence than others in the last 20 years. He learned Spanish. He traveled over the islands. He set up relief stations, went to the U. S. to collect funds, to fight Porto...
...Winship '93, assistant librarian, stated that the room is intended primarily as a center for the reading and appreciation of poetry rather than as an adjunct to regular course instruction. The Woodberry, Amy Lowell, and other collections of American poets will furnish the poetical background of the room, while by means of the Morris Gray foundation, a continual influx of new books will be kept up according to the desires of the undergraduates...
Senator Capper promised to sponsor a resolution for a wheat embargo as the next adjunct to Stabilization...
...declared that local health service is far more important than any campaign against a special disease. Pleasing was the reorganization of the Hygienic Laboratory as the National Institute of Health and its authorization to establish fellowships, to accept gifts for the study of fundamental problems relating to human diseases. Adjunct of the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago last week (see p. 14) was a contest of the healthiest boys & girls in the U. S. Champions : Marian E. Syndergaard, 15, of Grundy County, Iowa. One tooth slightly out of line and a slightly infected eyelid reduced her perfection...
...drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly posturing of its actors...