Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic sports at the University of Pennsylvania, and that fact will account for Pennsylvania's large representation on the team. Cricket in the American colleges has been growing steadily in popularity for some years, and now there will be ample opportunity to compare the standard of excellence reached in America with that which has been attained in England, Scotland and Ireland. The make up of the team will probably be as follows: D. S. Newhall, captain; F. E. Brewster, J. A. Scott, W. Scott, W. Crockill, W. C. Morgan, H. I. Brown, G. S. Patterson, W. C. Lowry...
...handicap meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place in Madison Square Garden, New York, next Saturday. It will be the largest athletic meeting ever held, as the entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five...
...Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson, '90, won by Huston. Mr. Molineux of the New York Athletics, and amateur champion of America, won the horizontal bar, after an exhibition of very difficult feats, with Mr. Stoll a good second. In the middle weight wrestling the first bout was won by Homans, '92, who threw Shields, '91, and later threw Curren, '92, in the second bout...
...Harvard Bicycle Club is the seventh oldest in America, and is just ten years old. The race-meet will be a fitting celebration of the close of its first decade...
...forward, even in the time of his bondage. The race has the instinct of thrift, and oppression only strengthened and developed that instinct. His character needs forming more than reforming. He has never fallen, because he has never had anywhere to fall from. The experience of the Negro in America has been a preparation for the redemption of his own race in Africa, and it is our work to complete that preparation. The training must be ethical. He learns rapidly and easily, but seldom lives highly. He must be trained in manhood, and herein is the field for missionary work...