Word: showing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first, a preliminary personal inspection at which the candidate presented papers of recommendation from his school principal, and a complete record of his scholastic and athletic activities, and secondly, the written test. These latter examinations were designed to test the candidates ability to reason quickly and logically, and to show a certain working knowledge of the subjects he had studied at school...
...surface 225 feet by 175 feet gave ample room for drill. Yesterday the men ran through their second practice there and worked the same points which have busied them since practice was resumed after the Yale game. In addition, the drill was lengthened out to permit the coaches to show the two teams all they know about characteristic Oregon plays, on which they have not yet the complete details. As the first eleven bucked the second team J. F. Brown '22 took C. A. Clark's place at right guard, and in place of Casey, who has a light cold...
...have been operating along our border for the past two or three years. Our neighbor to the south burned his fingers in the Jenkins case, and evidently decided to take no chances on further complications arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard to believe that the Mexican Federal authorities are as weak as President Carranza alleges they are; when it comes...
...allies that Mexico should be let alone to work our her own salvation. Mexico has had nearly as long as we have had to do that, and to date not much of a salvation has resulted. Apparently the only thing that the American government can do is to show Carranza that there will have to be a change of heart on his part, and that such a change will have to come quickly...
...Duke of Brabant, however, who had been committed to the care of a few students of his own age, expressed a desire to see that which the President could not show to the King and Queen, namely: the dormitories, the kitchens, the class-rooms, and so forth. He seemed delighted to escape for a while from the restraint of an official ceremony, and a scholarly ceremony, at that...