Word: america
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
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...
...Treaty of Versailles as a "tremendous moral victory for the cause of universal peace." Of course what the Herr Professor means is that it is a tremendous moral victory for Germany, in which he is entirely correct. He then goes on to point out that in the League America has only one vote to England's six, and deplores such a terrible state of affairs, where darling America, whom Germany loves so much, would be England's "hand-maiden." With a little dig at the wickedness of "imperialistic Japan's hold on Shantung," Herr Shuecking ends his peroration...
Football is the oldest of our organized games. The first we know of it is that it was played by the Spartans, and their style of play amazes us by its similarity to the game of today. Football, too, was a sport common to all village greens in in America following the Revolutionary War. The traditions of the older colleges of America are laden with stories of campus football...
...Rhodes Scholar I wish to protest gently against some of the suggestions of the editorial entitled "Rhodes Scholars Old and New." That "hitherto American Rhodes Scholars were not a great success at Oxford" and that the "Yankee" at Oxford has not been truly representative of the best that America can produce, are two assumptions which I doubt if you are entitled to make, however little I may be in a position gracefully to repute them. If you are under the impression that recent writings in the Atlantic Monthly give you authority, a less cursory reading of those articles will answer...