Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper man who is not without influence, who uses the whole power of his press to instill discord into our people by insinuation, though words he dare not utter...
...Brown, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, George Washington, Haverford, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Marietta, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury, New Hampshire State, New York University, Northeastern, Norwich, Princeton, Purdue, Rhode Island State, St. Lawrence, Stevens, Trinity, Tufts, Union, University of Maine, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Wesleyan, Williams, Worcester Polytechnic, and Yale. These colleges have contributed a total of 127 undergraduates. In addition, 98 business men, most of whom are graduates of the University, have been admitted to the Corps...
...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...
Columbia was one of the first universities to make the final decision. Among the important events cancelled by this action was the annual Poughkeepsie regatta which was called off after a telegraphic vote by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Invitations had been issued to Princeton, Syracuse, California and Wisconsin to compete with the charter members of the association. Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania; but the members of the Columbia crew were all enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at that university...
...vote stood 82 for and 6 against the declaration. Those who opposed the measure were Senators Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin; Asle J. Gronna, of North Dakota; Harry Lane, of Oregon; George W. Norris, of Nebraska; William J. Stone, of Missouri; and James K. Vardamann, of Mississippi...