Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nassau tug-of-war team won the championship of America at the games in New York the other evening, pulling the Yale team 6 inches and the Columbias 4 inches...
...very tree under which Washington first took command of the armies fighting for "Liberty or Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that the first shots were fired which meant that the colonies of America were to be free and independent? Are we not within sight of the monument erected over the spot where brave men fought and fell at Bunker Hill? If this is Harvard conservatism, fit upon it! Where, we ask, is Harvard patriotism? For a lack of the sentiment of patriotism...
...rapidly in the last few years. The museum now embraces the Sheldon Jackson and Trumbull-Prime collections, the collection of Etruscan potteries made by Professor Frothingham and several others, most of which are well known; and recently a collection of bronze medals, medallions and coins of Modern Europe and America has been presented to the college by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York. Perhaps the most interesting series of medals is the one cast in honor of the president of the United States by order of Congress. There is also an interesting series commemorating the Declaration of Independence...
...meeting on Feb. 21st, of the Nautilus Boat Club in Brooklyn, a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America will be held. Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Twenty-third Regiment, Crescents of Lynn and Nassaus will enter teams.- Yale News...
Professor Norton, on the 29th, will again deliver his lecture on "Some Conditions of Intellectual Life of America," which was so largely attended last week. It will be delivered in Boston and the time and place will be soon announced...