Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also decided to petition the Faculty to offer at least one course in practical aeronautics this next year. Most of the leading universities of Europe have already started similar courses and the question is being considered by many American universities...
Colonel Roosevelt, President of the United States for seven years, hero of the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, big-game hunter, and scholar attained a rank higher than any graduate of the University. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and prepared for College with private teachers. In the University he became one of the most prominent men in his class. After his graduation in 1880 he studied one year at the Columbia Law School...
...Overseer to the University: from 1895 to 1901, and again from 1906 to 1910. He received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia (1899), Hope College (1901), Yale (1901), Harvard (1902), Northwestern (1903), California (1903), and University of Pennsylvania (1915). He is the author of many literary works, chiefly on American history, ranch life, and hunting in the west, besides his extensive political writings for magazines and newspapers...
...inclined to accept them in substance, with some few reservations, particularly in regard to his idea of a non-paid army. It has long been a serious problem of national policy to find means for providing a better distribution of educational opportunities among the masses of the American people. For that reason we would propose, in conjunction with the military training at the various depots throughout the country, a well ordered and thorough course in industrial education which shall afford to men of suitable capacity and inclination an opportunity for self-betterment and advancement. Some such system as that...
Professor Coolidge is especially fitted for such a mission on account of his previous experience and training in Europe and more particularly in Vienna. After graduation here, he studied at the University of Berlin and at the Ecole des Science Politiques. In 1890 he was acting secretary to the American Legation in Petrograd, in 1892 was private secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge, Minister to France, and the following year became secretary to the American Legation in Vienna. He has long been prominent in diplomatic circles and was chosen as a member of the Taft party to the Philippines...