Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Frank Aydelotte '03, American Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarships Trustees, announced yesterday that seven members of the University had been appointed as Rhodes scholars for the forth-coming year. In an interview he explained the new system by which the Rhodes scholars will hereafter be chosen and gave a brief history of the scholarships since their establishment in this country...
...recently appointed to a Research Fellowship in Chemistry at the University, has already arrived and is engaged in the study of atomic weights under Professor Theodore W. Richards '86. This incident is of especial significance in bringing to light the fact of a foreign technical student coming to an American University to continue the specialized training which he formerly would have completed in Germany...
Under the new system, the qualifying examinations, which were based on the English public school system, have been eliminated. Instead, men are now chosen on their American educational records--both academic and social--and their personality...
...steadying influence derived from a democratic form of universal military training. In the present times of internal turmoil and disorder the advantages of such a policy are brought home to us with unusual force. What more effective way is there to inculcate in alien citizens the responsibilities of American citizenship than by giving them a period of service in a democratic army? General Pershing, appearing before the Joint Military Committee of Congress, said "Universal training is in a sense a school for citizenship. . . the necessity of this is evidenced by the fact that over thirty-two per cent...
...more day of the Roosevelt Drive; one more day to prove that this College is true American by its appreciation of him who was one hundred per cent. American. Already our subscription has beaten that of Yale. But Yale is not Roosevelt's own college. We cannot rest on our laurels. For the six of the University and the importance of the campaign, our total of fourteen hundred and seventeenth dollars is small indeed...