Word: america
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR JOHN FISKE began his course of lectures on "America's Place in History," at the University College, London, June...
CHUN LUNG, a Chinese member of the Senior Class at Yale, will deliver an Oration at Commencement on the "Chinese in America...
...recent Intercollegiate Athletic Sports at Mott Haven which excited the most general interest were perhaps the dashes in which Mr. Lee, of the University of Pennsylvania, was matched with Mr. Evert Wendell of Harvard. Mr. Lee, I believe, was the amateur, or at all events the college, champion of America in short-distance running. Mr. Wendell's record was very unusual. It is said that in his practice runs he had done his distances in shorter time than any on record, and in the Athletic Sports which were held in Gilmore's Garden toward the end of March...
...throw of 87 feet 1 inch; the running high jump, won by Conover of Columbia by a jump of 5 feet 8 1/4 inches; and the standing broad jump, won by Larkin of Princeton at 10 feet 3 inches, - all three being the best amateur records in America...
...JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will return, this summer, to America on leave of absence. He has just passed his fiftieth year...