Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...With the death of Josiah Royce, there passes away the second of the two men who, during the past quarter-century, have represented at its highest philosophical thought in America. The eminence of William James was more widely and impressively recognized in Europe than even in his own country, as was amply evidenced in the remarkable tributes paid to him on the occasion of his death by the most distinguished philosophical writers of the Old World. If the name of Royce is less conspicuous, this may perhaps be sufficiently accounted for by the more abstruse character of the subjects with...
...country; and, secondly, to the emphasis which the authorities of these schools place upon the possession of the Ph. D. degree by their teachers. In the eight years of its existence, the Graduate School of Business Administration has turned out about four hundred men, less than a quarter of them graduates, of course, but all of them men who have been for a longer or shorter time enrolled as students...
...open handicap track and field games held at Stamford, Conn., Saturday, T. E. Meredith, of the University of Pennsylvania, who recently established a world's quarter-mile record at the Intercollegiates, finished third in the 440yard dash. The race was won by H. I. Treadway, of Yale, with an 8-yard handicap, in 52 2-5 seconds. J. Nicholson, of the Loughlin Lyceum, New York, was second, having a 16-yard handicap. Meredith was scratch man and since the field was a large one, he had to circle it completely to get near the leaders...
...Widener Library has just come into possession of a remarkable collection of English historical broadsides and proclamations printed between 1626 and 1700. The collection, which includes many from Lord Polwarth's library, has been formed during the past quarter century by a well-known collector and sold on his behalf to Harvard by Messrs. Dobell of Charing Cross Road. The only collections to rival it were those in England of Colonel F. Grant and J. E. Hodgkin, both now dispersed, and that in the possession of Lord Crawford...
...Meredith, of Pennsylvania, world's champion middle-distance runner; F. Murray, Leland Stanford, winner of the high and low hurdles in this year's Intercollegiate meet; and E. C. Riley, of Dartmouth, who ran second to Meredith in his 47 2-5 quarter-mile run at the Intercollegiate meet, will be seen wearing the colors of the New York Athletic Club this season. Official announcement to this effect has been made by P. H. Pilgrim, assistant director of athletics of the Mercury Foot organization...