Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These scholarships, which correspond to the Rhodes Scholarships for American university students at Oxford, were presented by Mrs. Henry P. Davison in 1922. They are in memory of her husband, and have as their aim the fostering of good will between the United States and Britain...
...Roman Catholic priests, shouted down the news. Student priests ran to rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York...
...college the instructor would correspond to the director of a research foundation or the leader of a scientific expedition. He would coordinate the collected material, point out overlapping interests, raise questions, and direct further systematic attacks on both individual and collective problems. Such an instructor would necessarily be a vital factor in ensuring the success of this plan...
...known this is the first time that such a match has ever been held. The idea is that of Moe, leader, of the Oregon team and Oregon state champion. Courses will be picked by each team which roughly correspond to each other in difficulty. The golfers will then shoot against par and the results will be exchanged by wire. Each team will play with four...
...impressions and images which have become grouped about certain aspects of college life. The word "football" brings to mind one set of images; the sight of a text book or the tolling of the chapel bell, another. As a general rule, the pictures made in his head do not correspond in more than the slightest degree to reality...