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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Roorbach who was graduate of Colgate University in 1903, is an expert on commercial conditions throughout the world. He was for seven years a professor of commercial geography at the University of Pennsylvania, leaving his position in 1915 to travel on a commission in South America for the Carnegie Endowment, for the purpose of making an exhaustive study of trade conditions...
...immediately upon their return to this country in the fall, the process of discharge is necessarily slow, and, taken in addition to the recognized possibility of a return several weeks after college begins, might well play have with a successful fall term. Besides, small opportunity would be given for travel or the observation of general conditions overseas, except from the very limited viewpoint of the single village in which the enlisted student would probably be stationed for guard-duty. In addition to this, such scant faith is apparently placed by the High Command in the loyalty and integrity...
...give the track team a training table on the grounds that it is a team of individuals, and does not work as a unit. No clearer step could be taken to convince followers of track athletics that the Committee are either unfamiliar with the ground on which they travel; or are unwilling to support track with the same spirit with which they support baseball and crew...
...service of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps who were discharged from service between November 11, 1918, when the armistice went into effect, and February 28, 1919, may file claims with the Auditor of the War Department for one and one-half cents a mile additional for travel expenses from the place of discharge to their homes. Comptroller Warwick decided that the act of February 28, 1919, allowing a mileage of five cents was retroactive to November 11 as well. Men discharged between those dates were allowed only three and one-half cents a mile, under a former...
...confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person...