Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Joseph Adams, of Mason City, Iowa, coxswain, prepared for College at Mason City High School. He has had no former experience as a coxswain. He is 20 years old, weighs 98 pounds, and is 5 feet, 3 inches in height...
Secretary Shaw is a speaker of national reputation. During his two successful campaigns for the governorship of Iowa he made addresses which attracted much attention throughout the country because of his sound policy and effective use of facts and statistics. One of his best speeches was delivered during his first term as governor of Iowa, when he was selected to speak at the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the seat of the federal government at Washington on December 12, 1900. His subject was "The Development of the States during the Century" and the address has often been mentioned...
...Shaw has been Secretary of the Treasury since 1902. He gained much prominence in political campaigns as a Republican speaker in 1896. Two years later he was elected governor of Iowa, and in 1900 was elected for a second term...
...list of "accepted institutions" now includes Amherst, Beloit, Carleton College, Case School of Applied Sciences, Clark University, Colorado College, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, George Washington University, Hamilton, Harvard, Hobart, Johns Hopkins, Iowa College, Lehigh, Leland Stanford, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, New York University, Oberlin, Princeton, Radcliffe, Smith, Trinity College, Tufts, Union, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, Vassar. Wabash College, Washington and Jefferson College, Wellesley, Wells College, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Western University of Pennsylvania and Yale...
...figures in detail are as follows: Massachusetts, 2033; New York, 498; Pennsylvania, 166; Ohio, 130; Maine, 113; Illinois, 107; Rhode Island, 103; New Hampshire, 75; New Jersey, 66; Missouri, 56; California, 47; Iowa, 45; Connecticut, 41; District of Columbia, 35; Indiana, 34; Kentuck, 33; Minnesota, 29; Colorado, 25; Wisconsin, 25; Maryland, 23; Michigan 20; Vermont, 20; Washington, 15; Kansas, 13; Alabama, 12; Tennessee, 12; Texas, 12; Georgia, 11; Virginia, 11; West Virginia, 11; South Carolina, 10; Louisiana, 10; North Carolina, 9; Nebraska, 9; Oklahoma, 8; Oregon, 8; South Dakota, 6; Utah, 6; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 4; Delaware, 3; New Mexico...