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...cage will be placed on Soldiers Field near the military science buildings, covering a large area now occupied by tennis courts. It will be available for winter practice next year, as one of the largest cages in the country...
...Department of Agriculture reported that the population of the War areas has increased from 2,000,000 at the time of the Armistice to 4,207,000 at the present time. Of the 8,000,000 acres of devastated land in the area 7,000,000 have been cleared of barbed wire, explosives, trenches...
...Education is essentially the concern of the nation. Its effect is by no means limited to any given area. It is important to have national leadership in education, but better still to have partial support from national funds. This principle is confirmed by repeated federal enactments, beginning with the act of 1780 establishing the Northwest Territory...
...vocational and agricultural training. The rest is left to the states. But to leave the problem of education entirely to local communities has always proved a failure. That is why Horace Mann spent his life in fighting the district system in Massachusetts. Progress always results from enlarging the area from which support for education is drawn...
...Sykes outlined what he intended to discuss this evening: "I shall first have a map of Persia thrown on the screen and will give an account of the importance of Persia's location. I will next devote a few minutes to an explanation of why Persia became a war area...