Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Washburn has been for many years very closely in touch with Turkish affairs and, through his connection with Roberts College in Constantinople, is one of the few men in this country qualified to speak with authority on the present situation of Turkey. In his official connection with the Red Cross Relief Expedition to Turrey, Dr. Washburn has only recently returned from his extensive investigation of that country...
Harvey S. Reed, intercollegiate mile-runner, has been elected Yale's cross-country team captain for next year and has announced that Nilly Queal will again coach the squad. Hillis and Cros-by of last year's team will return this season, and Campbell, captain of the 1922 Freshman team and holder of the 600 yards indoor record, will also be eligible for the team...
...find considerable good in the Soviet regime in Russia, in no sense advocated Bolshevism, but confined himself to an instructive narrative of what he actually saw during eleven months in Russia. During these months Mr. Humphries was successively employed by the United States Committee of Public Information, the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Humphries has had exceptional opportunities for observing conditions in Central Russia and Siberia, having been present at the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, at the disbanding of the famous Constituent Assembly, and at two of the All-Russian Congresses of Soviets...
Candidates for the relay team are daily reporting to Coach Donovan at Soldiers Field in preparation for the Medley relay race which will be held with Cornell at Albany late in January. The men who were on the cross-country squad this fall have been excused from practice until after the Christmas recess. The work for the present consists merely of jogging practice in order to enable men to get accustomed to running. The distances for the relay race will be 352, 528, 704 and 880 yards...
...referendum ballot in seven hundred colleges and universities in all parts of the country would represent as far as is possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...