Word: child
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...wrong. Statistics were collected of the number of men taking part in athletics in the universities of these two countries a year ago, and it was found that, in proportion to the size, the University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...
Finally and perhaps most important of all is the splendid "Madonna and Child" by Fra Filippo Lippi, which has been sent up from New York as a loan, for a few days only. Dr. Osvald Siren, now visiting lecturer at Harvard, has made a study of this picture and says of it: "The Fra Filippo now on exhibition in the Fogg Museum is one of the master's most interesting works. It is of unusual artistic charm and historical importance. There are, as we know, only two paintings by this master in American collections. The one is the picture formerly...
...fact that its founders are University graduates. The originator of the scheme was C. S. Thompson '87, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Defense Society. The editor-in-chief is P. J. Roosevelt '13, and among the associate editors and contributors are R. W. Child '03, G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, and C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister...
...number of its new publication. "American Defense." The prime movers in this undertaking are University graduates, C. S. Thompson '87 being the founder, and P. J. Roosevelt '13 the editor-in-chief. Other editors and contributors are G. von L. Meyer '79, former secretary of the navy, R. W. Child '03, C. Stetson LL.B. '03, and Owen Wister '82. The magazine has for its object the spreading of the preparedness propaganda over the entire country...
Meanwhile our "Eastland," our Peabody and Triangle fires, our child labor problems and our huge production of munitions for private profit in mushroom towns where labor laws are laughed at or abrogated, all these stare us in the face when we speak of "national honor and human justice...