Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competition, open to all citizens of the United States, in the making of patriotic posters and advertisements to stimulate the buying of War Savings Stamps has been announced by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Prizes totalling $2,000 will be given for six best drawings, and there is to be an exhibition of 100 or more selected entries. The competition will close on April 25. The form in which contributions are executed is optional with the competitor. The results will be publicly announced...
Additional information, as well as the W. S. S. Bulletin, which gives facts concerning the War Savings Stamps and explains the object of their sale, may be obtained by writing to "W. S. S. Competition, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 119 East 19th Street, New York City." The text or wording on contributions is optional, but the W. S. S. mark which will be sent on application should appear, and all entries should be sent charges prepaid and carefully packed...
...Memorial Library includes not only many of Meeker's own books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...
...will show that lawlessness is prevalent in some cities in spite of the fact that it should be well handled in order to permit the nation to take full advantage of her resources. This lecture will be one of the series in which Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former American ambassador at the Hague, Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the British Army, ex-Consul General to Austria Albert Halstead, and ex-Secretary of State William J. Bryan have spoken...
...degree from the University in 1866 and his A.M. in 1869, and was also a graduate of the Law School; was admitted to the Bar in 1869, and has since become one of the leading lawyers of the country. He has in turn been president of the American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations, and is at present the president of the Anti-Imperialist League of this country. He has been twice an Overseer of the University, from 1877 to 1888 and from...