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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number of classes a day is six, and for each one there must be thorough preparation. The average South American, then, graduates when he is 17, an age when most people in the States enter college...
...stable will be ventilated by a simple but efficient method which brings air into the stables at the horses heads and takes the foul air out through duets which empty high above the roof. The stalls are so arranged as to leave a feeding alley between them, making the handling of feed, water, etc., much simpler than any other arrangement and obviating the necessity of going into the stalls in order to feed the horses. The floor of the passageway will be of concrete but the stall floors will be constructed with cerosoted wood blocks. These have several advantages...
...international Socialistic conference to be held at Stockholm shortly might well awaken from its very name high hopes in the breast of a philosopher. The labor of nations in a world parliament! The union of toilers before which all sectional boundaries fail...
...increase in the tuition is not the remedy for the increased expenses and needs of the Law School, for at present the cost of legal instruction, especially to students from the South and West, is as high as should...
...Reserve Corps is one of the best branches of the service for men to enter, for in rank it stands next to the Engineer Corps, and its work is most important and necessary to the nation in time of war. The requirements for commissions in this reserve are very high, but the only requirements for the non-commissioned are that the applicant be a citizen of the United States, between the ages of 18 and 45 years. A physical examination, such as is given for entrance to the R. O. T. C., will also be required for entrance...