Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt America League, for which a plan has been drawn up by a committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, consisting of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard; President MacCracken of Vassar; Dr. James Sullivan, New York State Historian; Mr. H. S. Weet, Superintendent of Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges...
...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...
...superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen...
...three teams as chosen by Walter Camp are as follows: First Eleven. End--Higgins, Penn, State Tackle--West, Colgate Guard--Alexander, Syracuse Centre--Weaver Centre Guard--Youngstron, Dartmouth Tackle--Henry, W. and J. End--H. Miller, Penn. Quarter--McMillin, Centre Halfback--Casey, Harvard Halback--Harley, Ohio State Fullback--Rodgers, West Virginia Second Eleven. End--Weston, Wisconsin Tackle--Ingerson, Illinois Guard--Denfield, Annapolis Centre--Bailey, West Virginia Guard--Depler, Illinois Tackle--Grimm, Washington End--Dumoe, Lafayette Quarter--Strubing, Princeton Halfback--Trimble, Princeton Halfback--Oss, Minnesota Fullback--Braden, Yale Third Eleven. End--Blaik, West Point Tackle--Slater, Iowa Guard--Clark, Harvard Centre...
...this the peace they promised us? Is it for this that men died? Hardly. The people responsible for this state of affairs will find that what was endured without complaint in war-time will not be so readily accepted now that the war is supposed to be history. There are legal ways to prevent such misfortunes as have come upon us during the past year; if there are not, something is sadly wrong with the institutions we fought for. It is the business of our elected representatives to find a way out of our difficulties--not merely to start long...