Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result the few non-educational societies which aim at a recognition of learning are unofficial. The American Academy of Arts and Letters, for example, although its honorary president is the President of the United States, and although its publications are printed at governmental expense, is in no way responsible to or connected with the government. So the Academy can rely only on popular appreciation of its high purpose. Its efforts should appeal to all patriotic Americans who desire that our savants should command the same respect as those of foreign countries. One might expect that this effort would arouse...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association at Columbia University last Saturday, Pennsylvania fared the best in the selection of the all-American intercollegiate soccer eleven. Four of the Quakers were designated for the honor. Princeton placed three players on this imaginary team, Haverford got two and Yale and Harvard each one man. Cornell failed to have a member of her team named for the honor...
...picked according to the traditional system in intercollegiate soccer football. Each manager nominates from three to five men and the vote is then taken for the different positions. Hoskins of Princeton, who was selected for centre half, and Mohr of Pennsylvania, were also members of the 1915 all-American eleven...
After some discussion the status of Columbia University as a member of the league was left undecided. Because of the return of the American football game to Columbia during the last two years soccer football has been denied a practice field. In 1915 the season was completed, but last fall it was decided not to establish a team in the intercollegiate association. Columbia athletic authorities, however, hope for an improvement within a few years in athletic field resources, and S. C. Merrill, the manager, yesterday asked that permission be granted to Columbia to re-enter the association on an active...
Seventeen undergraduates have already definitely signed up to go to France and have been accepted as ambulance drivers in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will leave College after mid-years and go at once to Europe. There are ten or 12 others who are expecting to go but who have yet to hear from their parents or the College Office before definitely signing...