Word: americae
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There are so many rules and regulations in this country about eligibility, professionalism, and good manners in intercollegiate football that the need for a uniform congress of colleges on a football code can hardly be denied. At its annual meeting last spring the National Students Federation of America considered just such a need and voted a resolution to the effect that it would exert all of its influence towards the organization of a conference which would reorganize athletic eligibility rules...
...more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these courses. Having fraudulently obtained some $500,000 from six Manhattan banks to save his Telluride bank (TIME, Sept. 16), Mr. Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving...
...little carbon added yields hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton of Molybdenum Corp. of America advised railroads to use the molybdenum steel for rails. It would support the heavier locomotives and trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory and other foreign matter in metal castings, particularly those made of aluminum, urged...
...late Provost Edgar Fahs Smith of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Garvan could not travel to Minneapolis from Manhattan because "three years ago I broke down. Some say that breakdown was the result of my endeavors to establish independent and sufficient chemical education, chemical research and chemical industries in America. . . ." This apology and the rest of Mr. Garvan's "random thoughts of a lay chemist," Professor Julius Oscar Stieglitz of the University of Chicago read for absent Mr. Garvan...
...presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn to play well." Further, President Gil urged a contest between the University of Havana and the University of Mexico for the Championship of Latin America. Subsequently, the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., accepted the invitation of the University of Mexico to play a game on Nov. 20 dedicating the new $1,000,000 Workers' Athletic field at Mexico City. The Sewanee team, which plays Tulane in New Orleans on Nov. 16, will proceed...