Word: canada
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mott is a graduate of Cornell University in the class of 1888. Immediately after graduation, he entered upon his work for the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. acting as a traveling secretary among students in the universities and colleges of the United States and Canada. He was also made Chairman of the Student Volunteer Movement, his work in this connection being to recruit missionaries for various church boards...
...class of 1894 and died on April 22, 1914. In college he both rowed on his class crew and played on his class football team for three years. After graduation he was engaged in business in Boston but found time to make hunting expeditions to Alaska, Europe and Canada. He continued much interested in rowing and was active in promoting the interest of this sport in the United States...
...gentleman with the pursued look and the bundle under his arm. Once safely inside your room he will open that parcel and bring forth anything from cigars to winter suitings. Taking you into the closet he will whisper in your car that he has just come from Cuba or Canada and has managed to get by the custom officials. He wants to go to Chicago and must raise the money immediately. Much as it displeases him he realizes that he must sell his treasures. Since they didn't cost him much in their native land he is willing to sacrifice...
There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...might be suggested that if among the American eagle's brood there are such scantily feathered crows as may not bear the eagle's altitude, they could fly to more suitable places than Cuba or Canada. In neither of these two countries is great love fostered for poltroons. And Mexico, with all her sins, places no immoral value on the prime necessity in our scheme of existence of the preservation of human life...