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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund for Atlanta University. | 1/12/1917 | See Source »

...general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate a subject must be. And his knowledge of theory qualifies him all the more to treat the subject broadly, with due regard to national needs. It makes little difference what precise place he occupies in the long range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/10/1917 | See Source »

...have already paid their remittances may call at Weld 3 this morning between 9.30 and 12.30 o'clock where their money will be returned. All checks will be returned by mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regiment Dinner Postponed | 1/8/1917 | See Source »

...regarded as the more important half of the plan. The objection has been made that such a visit is not expedient at this time, because of the strained relations between the two countries. This has a fantastic sound. Relations are not what they should be, but to call them strained in the sense of militating against such a visit as that proposed is to exaggerate what is abnormal in them. A preliminary looking over of the ground by men who know the qualifications of Mexican students would seem highly desirable. To arrange for a year of study which proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Helping Mexico to College. | 1/4/1917 | See Source »

Also it is obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-American Team a Fallacy. | 12/16/1916 | See Source »

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