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...situation in the Pacific is just as strong, he declared. "A major attack from the west against the canal would be a 'strategic absurdity' as long as we held Hawaii," he said, "unless the attacking national had an ally on the west coast of South America." The possibilities of such an alliance were very remote, in his opinion, because of the improved relations between South America and the United States which have existed since the government paid a large sum of money to Colombia for the loss of Panama...
Chief Operator H. P. Thomas '25, under whose supervision the record-breaking work has been carried out, said that Cuba, Mexico, England, the west coast of the United States and all districts of the country had been worked during the station's first week of operation...
...Samuel Michelson and Rosalie Przlubska, he is a brother of Charles Michelson (rabidly Democratic chief of The New York World's Washington Bureau) and of Miriam Michelson (author). But he graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis when these two were still on the Pacific coast, in swaddling clothes...
...rising enrollments of our colleges in general are seen in their most dramatic form in the records of our largest institutions. In 1910 the Transcript's census showed only two institutions from coast to coast having more than 5000 full-time students--Columbia and the University of Minnesota. Today there are eighteen. Again, the ten largest universities of 1910 had a combined enrollment of less than 43,000; today they have more than 101,000. The mastery of the tasks of administration and educational organization which such vast numbers of students impose is a challenge to the greatest executive talent...
...board does not meet to decide on the site of this year's Intercollegiates until March. If they decide to accept California's bid, it will be the first time in history that the title games have been held on the Pacific Coast...