Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Says Dr. Samuel P. Capen, chancellor of the University of Buffalo: " The strength of American education lies chiefly in its diversity, its flexibility, and its freedom. The schools of Nevada, for example, have never been and should never be like the schools of Massachusetts...
...lettermen available at the beginning of the season Coach Tuck has developed a combination which has won 12 out of 13 games, having been defeated only by the Army sextet 1-0. The squad had some valuable early season experience on its Christmas vacation trips to Lake Placid and Buffalo, winning five games. After an easy 6-2 victory over Hamilton, the Dartmouth skaters were forced to the limit to gain a 4-2 triumph over Cornell in two overtime periods...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...decided to hold the indoor track meet again next spring at the 102nd Engineers' Armory, New York City, on March 3. Baltimore and Buffalo were under consideration for the meet, but New York was decided upon as a more central location...
Sunday, February 18.--The Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, D.D., Bishop of Western New York, Buffalo...