Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However, the die has now been cast, and it is up to everybody worthy of the name of American to abide by its consequences. I sincerely believe that I am speaking for all German-Americans when I say that we will support the President through thick and thin and rise and fall with him. We may not enter into the conflict, if there is to be a conflict, as joyfully and eagerly as some others, but though our hearts are heavy and our souls are sick we see our duty clearly, and will not hestitate to perform...
...stars promise to make the middle distance runs endanger the old records. Competition in the 600 should be particularly keen between J. E. Meredith, of the Meadowbrook Club; F. J. Haipin and D. S. Caldwell, of the B. A. A.; H. Baker and J. T. Higgins, of the Irish-American...
...certain amount of military training would modify in a very valuable way the individualistic characteristics of the American man. It is, of course, desirable that no part of the productive period of a man's life be used for this purpose, which would point to doing it as a part of the educational system of the country...
After having used the English style of rigging on their shells for three years, the crews of the University of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of Coach Wright, will test out the American swivel oarlock system this spring. A new eight-oared shell fitted with swivel locks is being built, but the old shells rigged with thole pins will not yet be discarded...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...