Word: america
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...first intercollegiate all-America soccer team that has been selected in this country has been announced by G. Droyer, of Columbia, manager of the Intercollegiate league. According to the rules of the league, the captain of each team submitted his choice of players for the all-America team. From these the final selection was made by R. A. Spaeth, of Haverford, formerly president of the league...
Professor James H. Brewster, of the University of Michigan, delivered an illustrated lecture of unusual interest in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Characteristic Scenes in Chili, Bolivia and Peru." The slides used to illustrate the scenery and inhabitants of South America were excellent, especially those showing small towns with the show-capped Andes in the distance...
...illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "Characteristic Scenes in Chill, Bolivia, and Peru." This lecture will be open only to members of the Union. The slides which Professor Brewster will show this evening, depicting the scenery of South America, are unusually excellent, having gained very favorable comment during his lecture tour of the large western universities last summer...
...Brewster took the degree of L.L.B. at the Yale Law School. From 1883 to 1897 he practiced, law in Detroit and then entered the law department of the University of Michigan. Since 1903 he has been editor of the Michigan Law Review and has also traveled extensively in South America...
...University Library has received, as a gift from Professor A. C. Coolidge '86 and C. L. Day '08, a collection of some 4,000 books, chiefly on Spanish America, which formed the American portion of the library of Senor Luis Montt, of Santiago, Chile. It was purchased by Professor Coolidge at the time of the Pan-American Scientific Congress last winter...