Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crew season will open on April 9, when the University of California meets the University of Washington on the Pacific Coast, and although this struggle is outside the pale of Eastern collegiate rowing, the result will pass by far from unnoticed. The general feeling is that the winner will travel East to compete in neighboring waters, and the intersectional flavor which always accompanies a Pacific Coast athletic group East will give added Interest to the Hudson River regatta...
...University and other colleges of the United States comes a call to fill necessary teaching positions in educational institutions of the Philippine Islands and China. The offers guarantee men opportunities for an outdoor life, considerable travel, and a broadening influence gained from contact with foreign peoples in foreign lands, and from work of constructive and satisfying kind...
...rather humiliating for an American to feel that if he wants to travel to most foreign countries, most of the largest and best steamers plying the Atlantic and usually flying some other flag than his own. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of our commerce is carried in foreign bottoms and the reason for it is that the costs are so high in the United States and the laws under which our ships operate are so oppressive in their workings that our fleets operate under a handicap...
...rascally officer might decline to take it, alleging lack of space, and then purchase the goods at bargain prices when the frantic owner tried to realize something rather than see his property rot on his hands. Ships were so unsanitary that it was an absolute menace to health to travel on them; and owing to lack of schedules, merchants and other travelers couldn't make their plans for any fixed itinerary because they didn't know whether the next boat would turn up the next day, the next week, or the next month. All this discouraged agriculture, commerce and trade...
...remainder of the season, the players injured at one time or another are ready to fill their old places again. This evening at 8 o'clock, the rejuvenated five will test its strength against the Rhode Island State College team in Hemenway Gymnasium; Friday the scrapping Brown team will travel up from Providence for the return game, and next Monday the season will close, when the Center College five comes up from Kentucky with its array of football stars...