Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next logical development of the exchange professorship idea in our colleges should be the establishment of an exchange between institutions of the North and the South. Harvard has already its exchanges with Europe and with a group of four Western colleges. It is time that we should give like recognition to a great section of our country which has several institutions that are the peers of many in the North. It is all too little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects...
...blaze worked up, not spreading until it reached the top floor. The south-western corner of the building was untouched. The fire was discovered by Arthur Badger, of Quincy, who was visiting there. The damage is estimated at approximately $6,000. It was found necessary to cut away part of the walls and ceilings of the lower floors to get at the sections where the fire travelled up to the attic...
...Reports from Western cities indicate a movement to introduce professional football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional...
Word was received yesterday from J. P. Brown '14 that the West's awake. He has been speaking at several Middle Western universities in an effort to enlist college men for the American Ambulance Field Service. Fifteen men have volunteered at the University of Wisconsin, 22 at Chicago, and 20 at Western Reserve. Many more recruits are expected. Recruiting offices have been established at all of these universities...
...Western Conference athletes are following the lead of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America in announcing an indoor relay carnival, to be held under the auspices of the Athletic Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Ill., on March 3. This is the same date selected by the I. C. A. A. A. A. for its third annual indoor meeting, which this year will take place at Philadelphia. The Western fixture, though it has four relay events on the program, will include more individual competitive events than the meet in the East, where the idea has been...