Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant-Colonel Drennan, after explaining the plans for consolidating the Army and Navy air services, also expressed himself as in favor of intercollegiate competition, giving for his principal argument in its favor the fact that it would create the interest among the colleges and the public necessary to insure America's pre-eminence...
Prior to 1886 only nine new stars had been discovered in 400 years, but since then 25 have been located, including the 18 detected from the University Observatory. Among other undertakings assumed by the Observatory is the completion of the life work of Professor E. C. Pickering '65, who made a survey and classification of over 200,000 stars. The observations of this great survey are practically complete, and the catalogue is in its final stages...
...Among the many aids which the Phillips Brooks House offers is a comparatively little known one, the Text Book Loan Library. This library annually lends books to students for a very slight sum, where otherwise it would mean a considerable financial strain on them...
...this number, nearly two complete elevens, only five have been awarded their football "H's" before, and among these one man, R. Horween, has received it twice, in 1915 and 1916. The other four, E. L. Casey, W. B. Felton, W. J. Murrary, and M. Phinney, were all members of the team...
...Leacock, besides being renowned for his work done as Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, is better known by his humorous books, of which he has written six, among them being "Literary Lapses," and "Sunshine Sketches...