Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Make a big fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare...
...English teachers recently assembled in New York found itself discussing whether its members do teach English; whether the language spoken by Americans of the rising generation is merely a dialect, or whether it has attained to the dignity of a distinct "American" tongue. Professor Scott, of the University of Michigan, hails the day when this indigenous language will be officially recognized. It will apparently be composed of our vernacular Esperonto, with a few relics of our Trans-Atlantic heritage as a concession to tradition. Mrs. Smith will extend bids to a dance. Policemen will become cops in the dictionary, even...
...problem is nearly as old as man, and it will last as long as man endures. It needs always to be regarded. To develop the group discussion means the cultivation of truer friendship and more real education. --Michigan Daily...
Captain J. W. Overton, of Yale, won the individual honors, followed by L. H. Carroll, of Michigan, with the small lead of 50 yards. Ezra Wenz, of Cornell, crossed the line third. G. A. King '18 secured sixth place at the head of the University runners, followed by R. W. Babcock '17, 20th, J. D. Hutchinson '19, 24th, Captain A. Bancroft '17, 32d. W. P. Whitehouse '17, 38th, R. S. Cook '17, 50th and A. R. Bechtel '17, 56th...
...Overton, Yale . . . 35:302. L. H. Carrol, Michigan . . 35:493. E. Wenz, Cornell . . . . 35:584. E. J. Dempsey, Maine . . 36:035. I. C. Dresser, Cornell . . 36:226. G. A. King '18, Harvard . . 36:287. L. G. Watson, Syracuse . . 36:298. T. C. McDermott, Cornell . 36:469. L. V. Windnagle, Cornell . 36:5010. C. B. Thompson, Dartmouth...