Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...response of American colleges to the proposal that they make it easy for Mexican youths to come here to study has been prompt and generous, more than a hundred institutions having made definite offers of assistance in the form of remission of tuition fees or of scholarships covering the expense of both board and tuition. The other part of the project, for a visit of fifty Mexican educators to this country, has met with less success so far, although it may be regarded as the more important half of the plan. The objection has been made that such a visit...
Word has just been received that Howard Burchard Lines, LL.B., '15, of Paris, a driver in the American Ambulance Field Service, died of acute pneumonia in the Argonne district. He contracted the disease during service at the front. His father, Dr. E. S. Lines, lives in Paris...
Lines, who lived in Paris for many years, was one of the first of the college volunteers to enlist with the American Ambulance, going abroad when a member of the third-year class in the Law School. After serving the greater part of a year, during which he continued his studies as best he could, he returned and graduated with his class in June, 1915. Immediately he returned to France and resumed his duties at the front. During his work with the Ambulance, Lines had many narrow escapes from death and twice underwent operations for injuries contracted from heavy lifting...
There are to be six positions on the commission. It is rumored that other probable appointees are Daniel L. Roper, former assistant postmaster-general, and William S. Culbertson, who has had much experience with South American trade. Other doubtful reports are to the effect that Miss Ida M. Tarbell will be invited to serve on the commission. It is understood that President Wilson is particularly anxious to have the commission take up the question of changed economic conditions after the war. The personnel of the board will probably be announced this week, so that the appointments may be sent...
...doubt and skepticism! And yet not strange, when one considers the things which have emanated from that brilliant melting-pot of inconsistencies. "Major Barbara," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, does not change matters at all, for it is about as capable of being fully appreciated by an American audience as the Zend Avesta by a white-tied Methodist. Not that "Major Barbara" is not enjoyable, adverse criticism would reflect nowhere but on the unsatisfied but it is all so mysterious and sphinx-like...