Word: vanness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sheffield Freshmen living in Van-Sheff have the record of the university for the highest percentage of enrollment with a result of 78 per cent. The relative standing of the classes in the Academic department is as follows: 1920 has 52 per cent, 1922 has 51 per cent and 1921 50 per cent and 1923 trails with 37 per cent...
Coaching a crew from an airplane is not yet practical, although George Van Santvoord, who is one of Yale's coaches, tried it for the first time a few days ago. The first eight was on the harbor for practice, when Mr. Van Santvoord, in a plane with a professional pilot, flew over it. He attempted by megaphone and arm signals to direct the oarsmen, but found it impossible...
...experiment, Mr. Van Santvoord said yesterday that it was a novel experience, but that aerial coaching was not likely to replace the present system...
...members of the University are invited to a Red Cross mass meeting to be held in the New Lecture Hall tonight at 8 o'clock, where Colonel John Van Schaick, Jr., will be the principal speaker. Colonel Van Schaick represented the Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission in Holland, and was later engaged in Belgian relief work and Red Cross activities in France, Italy and Belgium...
...present to compete with him. To take a single example: in a recent meeting of steel strikers in the Pittsburgh district, an investigating Senator asked all those present who could understand English to raise their hands. In the crowded hall three hands were lifted. "At the same time," Lt. Van Buren reports, "the government seized literally tons of the socalled Red Bible of Lenine and Trotzky, which is being distributed among just such people, and still the country is flooded with...