Word: general
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meet are now on sale at the H. A. A. Office, Amee's Bookstore, Leavitt & Peirce's, and Wright & Ditson's Boston store. The price of admission for tomorrow's events is 55 cents. Seats at $1.65 and $1.10 may be procured for the final events on Saturday, while general admission tickets at 55 cents will admit to all unreserved sections of the Stadium...
...University track team, has been selected as a competitor in the inter-allied athletic games to be held in the Pershing Stadium at Joinville-le-Pont, near Paris, from June 22 to July 6. He is one of a team which has been organized under the direction of General Peyton C. March, and which will be composed of 50 of the most prominent track athletes who were in the United States Army during...
...colleges are forced to pursue their calling in the face of popular indifference toward educational matters such as is almost unheard of in England and on the Continent. This indifference has manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary of general educational training, and at the same time has, as we too are aware, kept down the salaries of school-teachers and college instructors to a shamefully inadequate level. This is chiefly true in the schools, both public and private, in which able and qualified men are only driven to accept...
...richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
...same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...