Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yard run: D. S. Caldwell, B. A. A.; J. F. Ryan, Boston College; Earl Koy, Pennsylvania...
...yard run: C. C. Bassett '19, F. T. Donahue '18, J. Knowles '18, J. Ryan '19, C. S. Swan '19, J. H. Townsend...
...numerous races the Hunter mile and the three mile run will be most closely watched. In the Hunter mile Ivan Meyers, of the Chicago A. C., the winner of the national championship, will be matched against Mike Devanney, of the Melrose A. A., and J. W. Ryan, of the B. A. A. In the three-mile great things are expected from J. W. Ray, of the Illinois A. C. His chief competitors will be V. Kyronen, of the Melrose A. A., last year's winner, and J. Hennigan, of the Dorchester Club...
...militia system is all at sixes and sevens. On Wednesday the Twelfth New York Regiment was ordered to pass in review before Senator Wadsforth of New York, and an officer in the Carranza Army. For some reason the appearance of the regiment was unsatisfactory, so that Major-General O'Ryan ordered it to march past the reviewing stand a second time. An order of this kind is not altogether unusual, and not particularly noteworthy...
...what was the result of Major-General O'Ryan's order? A large group of officers of the Twelfth tendered their resignations, because they felt that they had been insulted. This act was startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases...