Word: branches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Feeling that in the past this country has neglected this most important branch of the Government, and that improvement is necessary to bring the service into accord with the dignity of our position in international affairs, the American Manufacturers' Export Association recently passed a resolution urging upon Congress the necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type...
...made up of the leading men in the respective rank lists. At the end of the year it is proposed to award prizes to the three leading men in each list, and to engrave upon a shield in the club room the names of the champions in each branch, with the result that every season there will be a competition lasting a year to determine the champion...
...Appointment Office of the University is now sending out the registration blanks to all men who have signified their desire to enter the teaching profession or to engage in any other branch of educational work. Every year the Appointment Office receives calls for over one thousand men from educational institutions all over the world, and each year the office is able to secure men enough to fill only about two hundred and fifty of these positions. Besides handling these calls, the office tries to find a place for men who apply for positions for which calls have not been received...
Yale has also had the advantage in swimming, winning both the dual meets in this branch of sport, and twice winning the open Intercollegiate Meet. At water polo, the University has only once opposed Yale but in that game she was successful. Yale has also come out ahead in the few dual wrestling meets that have been held, while in the Inter-collegiates in which both universities have competed Yale has every time amassed the greater score...
...there is no peace." Wars and rumors of wars shake us as they never did before. We are now in the grip of a great coal famine, which, before it is past, will bring suffering to the highest as well as to the lowest. Its ramifications extend to every branch of our life; its crushing effect on industry makes vain every attempt to minimize its evil. Its paralyzing consequences are felt by the ships at sea and in the nations beyond...