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...system such as has been utterly lacking since the days of Tad Coy, it looks as if ancient football laurels might come back home." P>Spring practice was officially opened on February 14 at a meeting in the "Y" Club at which "Tad" Jones, Captain Aldrich and Plainer Mack emphasized varying aspects of the football situation. On the following day the ends, backs and line reported in the Case...
...charge of the groups are: Chinese Group, Professor W. E. Hocking, K. L. Kwong, 1 G.B.; Japanese Group, Professor James Ford, R. P. Bridgman ocC.; Latin American Group, Professor J. Klein, J. V. Manach; European Group, Professor G. H. Chase, Professor J. W. Plainer, H. D. White '21; Hindu, Siamese and Miscellaneous, Professor J. H. Woods...
...infrequently ask me about taking up social work as a calling. Nothing is plainer to men than that the demand for good workers exceeds the supply. Most of the calls are for workers in societies for organizing charity, child-saving agencies, social settlements. But there are some calls for probation officers, welfare managers, in large stores and factories, and workers in agencies which are chiefly concerned with civics or with applying the advances of medical science to relief and prevention of need. The positions are generally subordinate ones, but sometimes head workers are wanted...
...flash of the Crooke's tube. This Professor Trowbridge has settled by means of the new battery. Instead of the 20,000 volts which were before considered necessary, he has found that 100,000 are needed to produce the flash, and that with increasing voltage the picture becomes steadily plainer. This current, acting through one ten-millionth of a second, develops one million horse power...
...concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect; but I frankly confess that, viewing the utterances of 1823 in the light of 1896, I can see nothing in them which makes them in any respect applicable to the present case. Nothing is plainer in President Monroe's famous message of 1823 than that he referred solely to attempts on the part of the allied powers of Europe "to extend their system" to this hemisphere. he says: "It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent...