Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Middle West Congress in Minneapolis, February 12 and 13; the Northwestern Congress in Portland, Ore., February 18 and '19; the Far West Congress in Salt Lake City. February 21 and 22; the Mid-Continent Congress in Kansas City, February 24 and 25; and the Southern Congress in Atlanta, February 27 and 28. The League to Enforce Peace is organizing the tour for the purpose of stimulating public interest, and at each rally it is expected that resolutions will be adopted calling for the formation at the peace conference of "a practicable business-like league of nations." Copies of such resolutions...
...from which he was commissioned captain of infantry in November. His first assignment was as instructor at the third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia. At the close of this camp in May, 1918, he was transferred to the training detachment at the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, Georgia, as commanding officer of that unit. In October, when the S. A. T. C. was established there, he was made commandant of that organization in addition to other duties, and held that position until his recent transfer to Harvard. He received his promotion to the rank of major last...
...Committee on Camp Libraries of the American Library Association proposed that each State, county, and city, or other Community, should subscribe a total equal to five per cent. of its population, and the plan has been enthusiastically received. New York is expected to show its customary practical generosity; the Atlanta Rotary Club has promised that its home city shall not fall behind; Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have each established goals of $50,000; Seattle has asked to be put down for $25,000, and Spokane, Wash., will contribute $10,000, and Portland...
...Atlanta University, an institution for the higher education of colored men and women in Atlanta, Ga., now celebrating its semi-centenial, has begun the raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful...
...considered a badge of distinction all over the South to be a Harvard graduate," said Miss Louise Alice William, of Atlanta, Ga., when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Miss Williams was accorded an enthusiastic reception at Phillips Brooks House Thanks-giving evening, when she recited selection of cabin stories and folklore songs of the old Southern darkly, for which she is famous. Continuing her appreciation of the University, she said...