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...that seventy percent of industrial accidents happen to persons requiring an interpreter in filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...
...Secretary for the Scholarships, stressed the unusual opportunities this year for students wishing to attend Oxford. Because of the suspension of elections during the war, double the ordinary number of Scholars will be elected in 1920, provided that they come up to the standards set of "(1) qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership; (2) literary and scholastic ability and attainments; and (3) physical vigor, expressed in interest in outdoor deports and in other ways...
...when he came out of the tavern that day. He was not the Abe we had all known. He was different. There were new lines in his face. It was sorrowful. His steps were slow. He had passed out of his young manhood. When I spoke to him he answered with that gentle dignity now so familiar to all who know him. From that hour he was Abraham Lincoln...
...absolute equality in salary and social standing. In other words, athletics would be made as much a part of the curriculum of every school and college as mathematics, etc. And extra-curriculum activities, which, as any honest teacher will tell you, do more to develop character and manhood than all the studies in the class-room, would become curriculum activities...
They have laid my foundations on faith, on eternal visions of fair dealing, and fashioned my greatness with red blooded manhood and shoulder to shoulder contact with their fellow...