Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University of Pennsylvania is going ahead with the usual athletic schedule with the feeling that it is an especial duty to the country to promote the physical vigor of the undergraduates by keeping alive an unflagging interest in sports. Quite recently, in an address in New York City, M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, justified this policy by attributing its adoption to the outspoken appeal of the student body for participation in various branches of sport in order that they might fit themselves for military service...
...when the final contest turns into a struggle with some preparatory school or service organization, the whole cause for training seems to him wasted. From the observer's point of view, the informal system has failed even more dismally. The support of the undergraduates has been ridiculously weak, and interest in every form has decidedly lagged...
...news, it is the latter which most merits our indignation. Russia's national conscience is her own; she is half-blinded with internal disease and not fully to be condemned for her failure to carry on. But the doings of the "great American capitalists" should be of more significant interest to the great American people...
...from student subscriptions. Of the $30,000 subscribed by students, $20,484.57 has been paid in. Thirteen thousand, three hundred dollars have been paid over to the National War Work Council. The balance, $7,184.57 is on account at the Charles River Trust Company, where it is drawing interest at three and one-half per cent...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head...