Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French colony of Nova Scotia, with the spinning wheel and the quaint costumes of Acadian peasants. The soft sylvan scene representing a shore of the southern Mississippi has peculiar charm, and the weirdness of the Indian wigwam and the trapper's hut in the wilds of northern Michigan brings to us again the attractiveness of some old-time plays. In the latter part of the play there is little relief from the sadness of a sorrowful tale, but the sentiment is strong hearted and healthy, the language is dignified, the acting is simple, the whole has impressiveness and charm...
...Agassiz one day in 1867 met Charles W. Eliot, professor of chemistry in the Institute of Technology, and said to him: 'Eliot, I am going to Michigan for some years as superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla mines. I want to make money; it is impossible to be a productive naturalist in this country without money. I am going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make...
...study of topics relating to commerce and industry, and to stimulate those who have a college training to consider the problems of a business career, a committee composed of Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago, chairman; Professor j. b. Clark; Columbia university; Professor Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan; Horace White, Esq., New York City; and Professor Edwin F. Gay, Harvard University, has been enabled through the generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner, and Marx, of Chicago, to offer in 1914 four prizes for the best studies in the economic field. the contestants are divided into two classes...
...yard dash 440-yard run 880-yard run One-mile run Two-mile run High hurdles Low hurdles High jump Broad jump Pole-vault Shot-put Hammer throw Total Pennsylvania, 7 6 - - 1 5 - - - 5 - - - 24 Harvard, - - 2 2 - 2 5 - 5 - 1-2 - 5 21 1-2 Michigan, 1 5 6 - - 3 - - 1 - - 2 1 19 Cornell, 3 - 3 3 5 - - - 2 1-2 1 - 17 1-2 Dartmouth, - - - 1 2 - - 2 - - 2 1-2 5 2 14 1-2 Yale, - - - 5 - - - 3 - - 2 1-2 - - 10 1-2 Wesleyan, - - - - - - 5 5 - - - - - 10 California, - - - - - - - - 4 3 - - 3 10 Princeton...
...odds the most significant feature of the present meet is the entrance of the California team. For some time Michigan has taken active interest in eastern athletics and the appearance of these men from the Far West brings that section of the country into still closer contact with the East. The CRIMSON looks forward to the time when the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America shall be all that the name implies, including in its organization not only the northeastern Colleges but also those from the southern and western states. Present developments point to one outcome--the nationalization...