Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics, the average man forgets his mediocrity in a loud protest for his friend the bottle. If this is not the voice of the people, what...
...judges in the final trials were Coach Epstein, A. P. Stone '91 and W. D. Foster '06. The question debated in the trials was: "Resolved, that the United States should have a Federal Monopoly of shipping (coastwise and foreign) under the American flag." This subject will not be used in the final debate, but the question will be chosen by the University and worded by the Yale debaters...
...proposed establishment, as a permanent institution, of the American University Union, recently described as "the most popular rendezvous for our college men abroad," must claim the support of any collegian fortunate enough to get Paris leave while serving overseas...
Drawn to France by the war, Americans in general and college men in particular have learned for the first time the opportunities for broadening study and advanced research offered in her ancient schools and universities. There is reason to believe that not a few collegians who first landed on her shores equipped with "tin hat" and rifle intend to arrive next time armed with "mortar board" and note-book. To such men, the American University Union will provide as valuable and as necessary a nucleus of home influence in time of peace as it has in time...
...whether it will be developed into a central information bureau for all university men abroad, supplying general advice on living in France and holding regular meetings, receptions, and dinners, or whether it will become an ordinary university club with rooms and restaurant, and a permanent resident representative of American universities as a whole. At any rate, the main object of the Union from now on will be to promote research by American students in French universities and encourage their attendance at those institutions...