Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard Russia and Serbia on the one side, and Germany and Austria on the other as the main authors of the War of 1914. The Western powers, France, England and Belgium were reluctantly dragged into...
However, few of the big middle western schools would be interested in football games with Yale, Harvard and Princeton except on a home-and-home basis, such as Chicago and Pennsylvania have, and Illinois and Penn had in their two year series. The Big Ten schools do not need to go east to get strong opponents, to get big crowds or to get football recognition. The Conference race is sufficient in all these respects...
...reactions to this statement were equivocal. President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Reserve University, who, as president of the Floating University, was to have rejoined it in the Mediterranean after leaving it at Panama, but who did not rejoin it, stated vaguely: "I had a personal and altruistic purpose in starting the university, and everything so far has worked out beautifully." Yet the University Travel Association announced that its next cruise would be for men only, and would be "more effective from an educational standpoint." And within the University Travel Association appeared a rift, a split...
Doctors, members of the American College of Physicians, laughed reminiscently in Cleveland where they held their annual meeting last week, as Dr. Thomas Wingate Todd, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve University medical school, reminded them of their student horror of corpses. Said Dr. Todd: "The medical student comes into a new environment which is saturated with strange smells and weird noises. For his first few months at school he is worried a great deal by the nonsense fed to him by the sophomores about the dreadful things that are going to happen...
...Todd had a more pungent report to make from his anatomical laboratory findings. He told it to the College of Physicians as they dined. Since 1913 he has been measuring the brains of corpses brought to the refrigerating room of Western Reserve medical school. These cadavers had been poor people, suicides, social derelicts...