Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Loafing is now a crime. In three states, West Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey the workless man is no longer tolerated. The movement to suppress idleness has officially begun, and should and will spread over the nation...
...West Virginia the enforcement of the Compulsory Labor Law has been singularly successful since its passage a year ago. As a part of his punishment the convicted loafer must work upon the roads or other public works. A larger fine and longer imprisonment for delinquents are provided in the Maryland act. In their essentials, however, the laws of the three states agree...
Delegates from all the important colleges of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island will attend the conference which is meeting this year with the Eagles Mere Conference which includes in its membership students from universities in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia...
...Paris. Files of the leading American magazines, periodicals and newspapers will be kept in the reading room and arrangements have been made for placing athletic facilities at the disposal of members in Paris on furlough. The University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, Princeton, the University of Virginia, Columbia and the University of Michigan have already taken steps to provide bureaus in this Union to aid their own graduates, while the general officers of the Union will do all in their power for college men from institutions that have not started separate bureaus...
...Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale a few years ago. The University of Virginia comes next with 20 of its sons in Congress. Then in order are Harvard, 19; Yale, 13; Wisconsin, ten; Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, seven each; Minnesota, Iowa and Georgia, six each...