Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Howe, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York; Dr. J. B. Scott, secretary Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Rev. Frederick Lynch, secretary Church Peace Union; H. S. Houston, president Associated Advertising Clubs of America; G. W. Kirchwey, warden of Sing Sing Prison and president of American Peace Society; Senator Henri LaFontaine of Belgium: Professor Shailer Matthews of the University of Chicago; John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union; Senator Fall of New Mexico; Professor W. I. Hull of Swarthmore, and Dr. G. W. Nasmyth of the World Peace Foundation...
...Tello '11, G. K. Noble '17, and Dr. L. S. Moss will leave New York for Paita, Peru, in about ten days on a South American expedition for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their...
...faced the Congress of Vienna-that Henry Ford received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment. Bismarck and Moltke must roll over in their graves, and Joffre and Sir Edward Gray turn to the American news for amusing relaxation from the colossal problems of "civilization's fight for self-preservation." M. F. TALBOT...
...When we come to discuss the curriculum of the new School, several points are to be noted. In the first place, an attempt is made to steer between the rigid and fixed curriculum found in some of the American professional schools and the very elastic schemes that are found in the ordinary university courses here and abroad. It was attempted to strike a happy medium by requiring in the first year from all candidates for a degree a certain number of courses aggregating one-half or two-thirds of the whole. Every student who intends to go into business should...
...there seems to be something lacking in them to take away the mechanical feeling. "The Shepherd" of W. Willcox '17 is certainly not equal to the other works of this poet, nor does "The Tryst" by W. H. Nes uC. make any valuable addition to an anthology of American poetry. R. Cutler '16, however, proves his capability in the vein of humorous verse by "Why Give Her the Ballot?" This little poem is very much worth while, and the closing couplet is its crowning feature...