Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...engineering building at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, was destroyed by fire yesterday at a loss of over $750,000. It contained several collections which can never be replaced, and was said to be the best equipped building of its kind in North America...
...Monday evening, April 15, the international views of the Peace Movement will be discussed. The speaker for America will be the Honorable Oscar S. Strauss, Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for France, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant; for England, Sir Robert Cranston, ex-Lord provost of Edinburgh; for Germany, Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard; for Belgium, Baron Descamps, the secretary of state; for Holland, Mr. Maarten Maartens...
...Riis is an authority on this phase of the social question in America. He was born in Denmark, but came to this country when a young man and became police reporter for the New York Sun. Since then he has been active in the movement for establishing small parks and playgrounds within city limits, and has been instrumental in many movements toward tenement house and school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission...
...last meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Gymnasts of America the following officers were elected: president, G. F. Evans 1Dv.; vice-president, E. Bradford. University of Pennsylvania: secretary, E. E. Krauss, University of Pennsylvania; treasurer, J. Bushnell, Haverford; executive committee, A. H. Sperin, New York University, A. Hopping, Columbia: L. C. Everard, Yale, H. S. Geis, Rutgers, and H. L. Dowd, Princeton...
...side winning two games. The other two games were drawn. The American team played at the Rice Chess Club, New York, while the English players were at the Metropolitan Chess Club in London. Q. A. Brackett '07 of Harvard and L. J. Wolff of Columbia won their games for America, and J. R. Hanning and N. J. Roughton scored for England...