Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including one in Colonel Roosevelt's own home state...
...University: from 1895 to 1901, and again from 1906 to 1910. He received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia (1899), Hope College (1901), Yale (1901), Harvard (1902), Northwestern (1903), California (1903), and University of Pennsylvania (1915). He is the author of many literary works, chiefly on American history, ranch life, and hunting in the west, besides his extensive political writings for magazines and newspapers...
...into the favor of a large number of sons of the big cities. They have heard, with a voice that may not be denied, the call for going to the land. They have purchased overalls of the latest 1917 model from the clothiers, and now besiege dairy, truck and ranch farmers with requests for any work of an arduous kind which will increase their country's food production, all the way from milking cows to raking the leaves off the front lawn...
None of them apparently have been to Plattsburg, none of them has been in the woods or on a ranch or out at the Exposition; and only one--a candidate--has read the newspapers. The war, which has filled the thoughts of most of us, has not troubled the Advocate board since it brought unexpected notoriety to the paper last spring. The all-absorbing topic is relegated to the book-review section and to one little poem at the very end of the number...
...Frederick Van Wyck Fortescue, a boy hero, P. M. Hollister '13 Barrett Booth Dustifoot, a trajedian, J. K. Hodges '14 Washington Bagley, a janitor, J. A. Milholland '14 Zachariah Hay, the country boy, L. H. Mills '14 Minnie Hay, the country girl, A. F. Sortwell '14 Herr Hohenzollern, a ranch master, W. T. Gardiner '14 Lieutenant-General Castillo, a revolutionist, G. C. Cutler '13 General Ohdearno, his chief, W. T. Gardiner '14 Anita, a siren, T. M. Spelman '13 Lieutenant John Holland, U. S. N., J. S. Morgan '14 Captain Da Go (of the Rebel ship). L. Saltonstall...