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The University of British Columbia, commonly referred to as UBC, is a public research university with campuses and facilities in British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1908 as the McGill University College of British Columbia, the university became independent and adopted its current name in 1915. It is British Columbia's oldest institution of higher learning and has over 60,000 students at its Vancouver and Okanagan Valley campuses. Most students are enrolled in five larger faculties: Arts, Science, Applied Science, UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Sauder School of Business. UBC's Vancouver campus is within the University Endowment Lands, about west of Downtown Vancouver. The Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is in Kelowna.

According to the annual rankings compiled by "Maclean's" and "U.S. News and World Report", the university consistently ranks among the top three research universities nationwide. In 2015, "U.S. News and World Report" and "Times Higher Education" ranked UBC among the 20 best public universities worldwide. With an annual research budget valued at $600 million, UBC funds 8,442 projects as of 2014. Faculty, alumni and researchers have received seven Nobel Prizes, 69 Rhodes Scholarships, 65 Olympic medals, 8 memberships in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and 208 fellowships to the Royal Society of Canada. The university has also educated three Canadian prime ministers, most recently Justin Trudeau, the current prime minister.

1. What does UBC stand for?
2. What year was it founded in?
3. What city?
4. What was it named as initially?
5. How many students attend it?
6. Name the important 5 faculties there?
7. What type of university is it?
8. Is it ranked in the top three?
9. Name one political figure who attended it?
10. Who is he?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. The University of British Columbia
2. 1908
3. British Columbia, Canada
4. the McGill University College of British Columbia
5. over 60,000
6. Arts, Science, Applied Science, Medicine, Business
7. a public research university
8. yes
9. Justin Trudeau
10. the current prime minister

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CHAPTER IX

SETTLING DOWN TO STUDY

Dick meant what he said concerning coming back to Putnam Hall for the sake of learning something. He felt that he had lost too much time from school already to lose more, and he pitched in with a vigor that was indeed surprising.

"I don't see how you can do it," said Tom one day. "I can't, to save my life." Yet Tom was by no means a poor scholar, and if he did not stand at the head of his class he was not far from it. Sam was also doing his best, and all of this gratified Captain Putnam exceedingly.

"It shows they can work as well as play," was what the captain told himself, and he wrote Anderson Rover a long letter, in which he praised the boys for their efforts.

The boys fell into their places at the academy with a naturalness that was surprising when one considered the adventures that had but lately befallen them. Over and over again did they have to tell of their doings while on the Pacific, and as Crusoes, and some of the cadets never tired of listening to the stories. A few, including Lew Flapp, did not believe them true, but the majority did, and that was enough for the Rovers.

Dick was now advancing in years, and he knew that before long he would either have to go into business or to college, which he had not yet fully decided. To tell the truth, the thought of separating from his brothers was exceedingly distasteful to him.

1. What is the name of this Chapter?
2. What school was Dick coming back to?
3. Had he lost time from school?
4. How did he pitch in?
5. Could Tom do what Dick did?
6. Was Tom a poor student?
7. How far was he from head of his class?
8. Was Captain Putnam pleased?
9. To whom did Putnam write?
10. Was is a long letter?
11. Did it contain praise?
12. What did he tell himself?
13. Had the boys had adventures lately?
14. Who listened to their stories?
15. Did Lew Flapp believe the stories?
16. Did most cadets?
17. Where did some of the stories take place?
18. Were the boys acting like the Crusoes in their stories?
19. Was Dick going into business?
20. What else was he considering?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. SETTLING DOWN TO STUDY
2. Putnam Hall
3. Yes
4. With vigor
5. No
6. No
7. not far from it
8. Yes
9. Anderson Rover
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. "It shows they can work as well as play
13. Yes
14. the cadets
15. No
16. Yes
17. the Pacific
18. Yes
19. He hadn't yet decided
20. Going to college

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(Mental Floss) -- Over the centuries, people have had some very good reasons to dress up like a member of the opposite sex.

After record-setting Olympics athlete Stella Walsh died in 1980, it was revealed that she had indeed been a man.

And I'm not talking about people who live this way out of personal preference, or those who dress up for theater and entertainment.

Here are just five examples.

1. Cross-dressing to join the army

Until recently, women have rarely been allowed to serve as soldiers.

So what was a gal to do if she wanted to serve her country? Naturally, disguise herself as a man and join the troops.

At least 400 Civil War soldiers were women in drag. These included Union Army soldier "Frank Thompson" (also known as Sarah Edmonds), whose small frame and feminine mannerisms (rather than causing suspicion) made her an ideal spy, as she could spy on the Confederates disguised as... a woman!

She wasn't the first woman to don a male disguise and join the army, though. During the Revolutionary War, women fought as men on both sides.

Hannah Snell, for example, joined the British army to find her husband, who had walked out on her to enlist.

Once her true sex was discovered (thanks to a pesky groin injury), she became a national celebrity in Britain, and made a post-war career of performing in bars as the "Female Warrior." Mental Floss: The Confederacy's plan to conquer Latin America

2. Cross-dressing to keep a royal family together

1. Name the athlete who died and was then revelead that she was a man?
2. What year?
3. How many civil war soliders were women in drag?
4. Who was Frank Thompson in "real"?
5. Was she the first woman to do a male disguise?
6. During what war did women fight as men?
7. Name a woman who joined the British Army?
8. and why did she do that?
9. what led to the discovery of her gender?
10. and what was she known as after?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Stella Welsh
2. 1980
3. at least 400
4. Sarah Edmonds
5. no
6. revolutionary
7. Hannah Snell
8. to find her husband
9. groin injury
10. the Female Warrior