Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was another East-West game played last week in Los Angeles, by Southern California the best of the Western teams, against Notre Dame the only Eastern team which, by virtue of the inspiration which football players share with soldiers, beat the Army. Don Williams, the Californian quarterback, and Jess Hibbs, who cut a swathe ahead of him, were vastly superior to any Notre Dame players. The game was not lopsided like the others, but the score was 27-14. and Southern California...
With pomp unusual to West Virginia, which has very few colleges, John Roscoe Turner, last week, was inaugurated President of the University of West Virginia. He had been Dean of New York University's Washington Square College in Manhattan. From a huge commercial community, he went to a small industrial one (Morgantown). From merely purveying education (economics is his specialty), he went to set a state's educational pace...
...West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...
Agriculture is the preoccupation of practically all state universities, but not of West Virginia, although its corn, hay, tobacco, potatoes and fruits are worth $100,000,000 each year. Its hillbilly farmers are too difficult to reach with farming information...
...West Virginia's illiteracy percentage is 6.4. That is better, however, than the percentage of any southern state, except Maryland...