Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other members of the President's Cabinet, and will have three assistant secretaries. The secretary's salary will be $12,000, and the assistant secretaries will receive $10,000 each. The entire appropriation for salaries, incidental expenses, and general financing of the new department will be $500,000 per year...
...create a department of education, to appropriate money for the conduct of "to create a department of education, to said department, and to appropriate money for the federal co-operation with the states in the encouragement and support of education." It provides one hundred million dollars per year for training teachers, physical education, and the education of immigrants and adult illiterates...
...academic merit to make them worthy candidates for admission. The subjects offered will be so fitted to the needs of the men that every individual from the most illiterate to the university trained will be able to profit by the opportunity. And it is expected that fully forty per cent. of the soldiers will avail themselves of the chance offered by the school...
...Infirmary, where the Influenza cases are being treated, has the best record of any hospital in the vicinity. There are now about 60 cases of Influenza at Stillman, but there have been no deaths from the disease. In the Boston hospitals there has been an average mortality of 20 per cent, of all Influenza cases admitted. At Camp Devens, where there are some 48,000 men, there have been 15,000 cases and 590 deaths...
...losers were inferior in both experience and power. This race was staged as the feature of the annual Invitation Regatta held by the University as part of the program; also the letter's second crew was matched against the Elis B aggregation. Yale, with an advantage of 15 pounds per man, came out the winner, but only by half a length...