Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution was ever more thoroughly put out of business by the introduction of machinery than the trade of there...
...October have been announced. Each state and territory is normally entitled to one scholar, but as there were no elections in war time, several states will make two appointments this year. These states are: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin a twelve-week course in auto mechanics, open to grammar school graduates over 18 years of age, has been developed as a result of the auto course given to about 700 soldiers in the Students' Army Training Corps. It is now beginning its second session. A semi-weekly lecture course in the problems of peace, a course in which about 600 are enrolled, has succeeded the war lecture course which was given during...
...appointed assistant professor of botany at the University and in 1879 became professor of cryptogamic botany, a position which he has held ever since. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University in 1896, from the University of Glasgow in 1901, and from the University of Wisconsin in 1904. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by the University of Upsala...
...University and military training are not compatible," says Dean S. H. Goodnight, former director of education of the S. A. T. C. at the University of Wisconsin. The American Union Against Militarism goes him one better by declaring in a circular letter appealing for members in the colleges that this opinion has been given support by authorities in most his authorities in most of the colleges where the system was tried out. Among its members, this organization boasts such prominent peace-at-any-price advocates as Oswald G. Villard, of the "Nation" who officiates as chairman, Amos Pinchot, vice-chairman...