Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original draft of "America" written by Samuel Francis Smith '29 is being shown in the Treasure Room of Widener Library as part of an exhibit of manuscripts by eminent British and American authors; and other objects of interest including foreign decorations bestowed on President Eliot. There are some interesting revisions in the manuscript of "America" which make it as we sing it today. The line which is now "The woods and templed hills" was first written "Our woods and sacred hills," while "Let all that breathe partake the sound prolong," was originally "Let all that breathe partake the scared song...
Preparation for the play begins in the May preceding the year of production. The first step is to call the prospective playwrights together and outline to them the general requisites for a proper vehicle. These men start work on their plays immediately and are expected to submit a rough draft of them, with one scene complete with dialogue, by the first of June. Then a committee of three, including the president of the club, the president of the graduate advisory board, and Professor Stuart, who coaches the production, selects the one they deem best from among these manuscripts. The writer...
...following 11 representative Northern States: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota as examples of the application of this incorrect and vicious estimate of population, we find that the estimated population of these states, based by the War Department upon the draft registration, and used for alloting draft quotas, was 48,306,543. The census returns disclose that these 11 states actually had in 1917 a population of 12,764,423, or, in other words, the War Department had credited to them 5,542,220 more people in 1917 than they actually...
...turning to a representative group of Southern states, namely; Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi in which figures are available, it appears that the War Department estimated these states as having a population of 11,416,415, upon which to base draft quotas. The actual population of these six states in 1910, seven years earlier, was 12,325,472, and the actual population in 1917 was 13,202,333. These figures disclose that the War Department estimate was 1,785,818 less than the actual population shown by the census...
...show more clearly the application these figures have to the draft quotas of the individual states, I will give the figures as they stand in Massachusetts case. The War Department credited Massachusetts with 233,506. more people in 1917 than the state contained. This meant that 9,340 men were taken out of Massachusetts above what her true quota was. On the other hand, though I wish to emphasize that I do not mean any reflection upon the patriotism of the Southern men, South Carolina gave 9959 men less than she should have given under the draft calls, and this...