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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competitive spirit where it bears most fruit. That as great skill in the field events may be obtained by conscientious practice as by any natural aptitude has been proved in the last two seasons. Men with mediocre physical qualifications have developed into intercollegiate point winners. As the track team never has had at its disposal an abundance of field event material, more men with will-power and a desire to be athletic should specialize in some department. Though awkward at first, they will meet competition of their own standard, which may succeed in holding their interest. For a victory over...
...Plattsburg Military Training Camp every one is strongly urged but not required to take anti-typhoid inoculation. Those who have never been vaccinated against smallpox and those who have not had a successful "take" within seven years are likewise strongly urged but not required to be vaccinated...
...play has, until this revival, never been acted in Boston--a strange fact when one considers the human interest and particularly the humor that it yields in actual performance. The fat Knight and his followers appear in their most amusing vein; the old King presents a moving figure of a dying monarch and father; and his son, Prince Hal, is a most interesting character study of the mind and heart of one who combines humanity and loyalty...
...with his father. Burned out in the Chicago fire, he returned to New York penniless. He had been apprenticed to his trade at sixteen and in New York he had little difficulty in finding work with different periodicals. Mr. Cole's connection with the Century Magazine which he has never completely severed, began in 1875 when the late Alexander W. Drake called him into the service of the magazine, then called Scribner's Monthly...
...world's supply of materials essential to life and comfort become exhausted, the importance of a knowledge of their chemical properties and relations grows. Never before in history, to take a familiar example, has the loss of metals to the world been accomplished so rapidly as today in the great war. And in proportion as these substances are used up, advance must be made toward the acquisition of suitable substitutes...