Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after a year of railroading took up the study of law. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and was a practising lawyer thereafter, devoting much of his time to public causes. For many years a trustee of the Penn School in South Carolina, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Seventy, secretary of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Reform Association, and from 1912 to 1915, chairman of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform League...
...real preparation for life. Several student editors, notably the editor in charge of the Williams Record, have shown a disposition to give their editorial articles at least this merit--;that they should speak with definiteness and conviction. But it has remained for the undergraduates of the University of North Carolina to lead the way with most significance. There has lately come from this institution a copy of a new periodical called "The Range Finder." It is given over entirely to articles on the war, both as to the world events themselves and as to the influence which they have been...
...early to say what length of life this new periodical will enjoy at North Carolina or how far other undergraduate bodies will go in emulating its striking example. It is not too much to say, however, that where such manifestations as these are discovered in the spontaneous life of an institution, there you may know one more American college is of a truth "finding the range," and preparing to forge its way forward into a new epoch of public usefulness. Boston Transcript...
...Swift of Chicago, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and Samuel F. Houston of Philadelphia, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, were elected to the Board of Trustees on which there are already representatives of the University, Princeton, University of Michigan, Yale, Amherst, University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, the University of the State of New York, the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. The staff in Paris is shortly to be increased by Professor Alderfer of Oberlin College...
...week for the campaign been chosen when Governors fell into line from every corner of the country. Among the first to respond was Governor James Withcombe, of Oregon, and shortly after his enthusiastic endorsement came a message from Governor Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi. Governor T. W. Bickett, of North Carolina, was among the first to respond, and Governor Simon Bamberger, of Utah, and Governor Lynn J. Frazier, of North Dakota. "I will issue a proclamation for Soldiers' Library Week at once," they wired...