Word: personal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exact manner by which the disease is spread is not known. Of course the disease comes from the person who has it. College life is unusually free from close associations and contacts with children, among whom the disease is most prevalent. Presumably life in a college gives in itself a certain amount of insurance against the disease...
...first boat. After several days of waivering the following changes were made as permament: Whittlesey was brought up from the second crew and placed at 2; Sheldon now held down 4; Kositzky took Fitzpatrick's place at 6; and a new stroke was brought into the boat in the person of Lawrence...
...what courtesy and efficiency it is now managed. But the task is too large to be discharged by any single officer. The matters which must be dealt with are so varied in their range and the number of men, organizations and institutions involved is so great that no one person can keep in touch with them...
...fair-minded person conclude that the fact "that Henry Ford received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment"? Surely such a conclusion should not pass without comment. The author fails completely in his effort to grasp the significance of the expression given by the votes of the delegates from Michigan and Nebraska. He sees but one side of the preparedness movement,--the military; while the delegates from Michigan and Nebraska were able to see the other side,--the economic. And Henry Ford, above all others...
Bernice Veazey Brown, Radcliffe 1916, of Providence, R. I., won for the second successive year the William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 for the best essay on "Efficient Billboard Legislation." This is the first time since the prize has been competed for under the present rules that the same person has won it more than once. The prize was offered by the National Municipal League to all undergraduate students registered in any college or university in the United States offering direct instruction in municipal government...