Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lacrosse is doing well, and the outlook in track athletics is bright. By his victory in Montreal, last Saturday, Dohm, '90, now holds the championship of America in the quarter-mile run; he also holds the record in Ireland. The annual fall handicap games will be held about the middle of this month and will consist of fifteen events...
...Campbell and Hall are the Columbia players who have won the championship of America, every effort must be made and all the best and most earnest tennis players should turn out, but not those who have absolutely no show of winning...
...eight hundred picked men of high purpose preparing for lofty duty. Perfectly naturally, therefore, the service here has assumed the place which we all wish for anything that belongs to the University. As we wish, and indeed expect, that our observatory shall be the most distinguished observatory in America, our system the best system, our gymnasium the best gymnasium, our crew the best crew, our Greek the best Greek, we are glad to believe that our chapel service is the most dignified and distinguished, and that it meets fully the purpose of such service...
...strength to help them through; and the daily chapel service takes on, of course, the high dignity of being the central occasion which collects the college, and collects it for its central aim. That aim is, that honorable men, of true and upright life, shall go hence and lead America. You have heard me say it a thousand times. I hope you will say it, each to each other, a thousand times more. This is the one thing where there is no "Elective." It is the one thing which history requires, and your own consciences, which are the voices...
...honor of American scholarship, and to represent our interests in the field as well at home, it is proposed to furnish an American student to aid in the explorations by the Egypt Exploration Fund of England and America. It is also most important to have one of our countrymen who is versed not only in Egyptology and in the recent 'results,' but who is personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection...