Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final heat of the International Regatta held on the Seine Sunday, the New Zealand eight defeated the American crew by a final sprint in the last fifty yards of the race. The contest was very close throughout, and the two boats were separated by only a few inches most of the course. In addition to the New Zealand and American crews, New-foundland, France, Portugal, and AlsaceLorraine were represented...
...Harvard--as is the case in all American colleges--there is little real stimulus for high intellectual achievement. A Phi Beta Kappa key is the only incentive, and, in general, this is accessible only to men with an unusual ability for cataloging and remembering facts. The student who lacks enthusiasm for Phi Beta Kappa turns his attention to some college activity other than scholarship where he is stimulated by what he feels to be real competition. These activities, although they offer valuable experience, are not--can never be, a substitute for scholastic work...
Major A. Winsor Weld '91 of Chestnut Hill is one of the members of the American Red Cross Mission to Greece who have been decorated by King Alexander for their services to his country. Major Weld went to Greece early last fall as a member of a large unit numbering about seventy people, including stenographers, clerks, and nurses. In planning the work, the country was divided into districts, and Major Weld has had charge of several islands...
...comparison with other colleges, the University has the largest registration of any at the American University Union in Paris. Yale comes second and Princeton third, while the others are represented according to their size. A total of 140 colleges are members of the Union, of which one hundred pay an annual assessment to meet the expenses of the establishment. The latest available records show the following registration figures: Harvard, 3168 Yale, 2200 Princeton, 1650 Dartmouth, 550 Amherst, 520 Williams, 450 Brown, 375 Bowdoin...
There are over 200,000 students on the rolls of the American Army educational institutions, according to a cabled report from Raymond Fosdick, chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, to the War Department. The A. E. F. University at Beaune has 10,000, about 7,000 attend French universities, and 3,000 are at British Institutions...