Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pioneer is the one who has the backbone to grow up with a new country, or under new truth, or in a new profession. There are said to be 50 chances of success for every graduate of an American scientific department who is willing to live his career in the Orient, while there is, perhaps, only one out of 50 chances of greatness at home in some branch of industry which is already highly developed. China wakens and calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens...
...professor and later became president of Leland Stanford Jr., from 1891-1913. Since then he has been chancellor. In 1910 he was made chief director of the World Peace Foundation. He has written many books among which are "The Voice of the Scholar" and "The Religion of a Sensible American...
...election of Dr. Barrett Wendell and Gari MeIchers to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters illustrates very strikingly the purpose as well as the need of such a body as the Academy. These two men, by their achievements in different lines of endeavor are fully deserving of their new honors. Dr. Wendell, who is professor of English Literature at Harvard, is distinguished as a writer, critic and lecturer. Gari MeIchers is an American artist who is hardly known here, although he has been much honored abroad. Dr. Wendell as a lecturer at the Sobonne and other French...
...faultless, the carnival scene being particularly effective. In the chorus, however, much is lacking, which might escape notice were this body not so frequently in evidence, but since no remarkable dancing is seen and this, coupled with an absence of beauty, we wonder for what function this good old American Institution is intended; if just to pass the time we lose patience, for we long ago have ceased to expect real singing...
...Dartmouth Glee Club will give a concert in the Winchester town hall on Thanksgiving evening. Dancing will follow the concert. An elaborate program has been arranged, and will include several humorous readings, a group of American Indian songs by E. Frazier '20, who is a full-blooded Sioux Indian, and several Hawaiian melodies with ukelele accompaniment. The Dartmouth Glee Club is tied with the clubs of Princeton and the University for the prize offered by the Intercollegiate Glee Club Association, and competed for annually by the leading Eastern colleges and universities...