Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, chairman; the Right Reverend Charles David Williams, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan; the Reverend Paul Revere Frothingham '86, of the Arlington Street Church, Boston; the Reverend Elwood Worcester, of Emmanuel Church, Boston; the Reverend Ambrose White Vernon, of the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline; Professor Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary, New York City...
...appeal is being answered appears in a recent study of the personnel of Congress, which shows 380 members of the present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale a few years ago. The University of Virginia comes next with 20 of its sons in Congress. Then in order are Harvard, 19; Yale, 13; Wisconsin, ten; Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, seven each; Minnesota, Iowa...
...older members of the faculty have formed a Home Guard and Rifle Club; the younger are in the R. O. T. C. A notable fact about the enthusiasm of Michigan is that about 150 men have given up the vacation that is now going on and are drilling four hours a day under a regular army officer...
...Michigan has not featured the other departments of service as yet. No one is thinking of a quartermaster's corps there, and all the religious work is being left to the Y. M. C. A. However, the Michigan Union has issued a general questionnaire to all Michigan men asking them to state what things they can do best and urging them to enter that branch of the service for which they are best fitted. The Regents have voted that all departments of the University shall be devoted to the Government service in whatever from that service may be desired...
...Michigan, St. Louis University and other institutions in the Middle and Far West, have followed the same course, and all the athletic events scheduled by the universities of the Pacific Coast have been declared off, through the action of Congress and the President...