Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentlemen of Harvard, are you aware of the fact that your college is in America and within a few miles of Lexington and Concord? Is it not a strange teaching that you give, by implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley...
...Nautilus Boat Club will hold athletic games in the Palace rink, on Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, Tuesday, Feb. 21st, and by special permission of the National Athletic Association, will have a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America. The limit of weight will be 650 pounds with a round belt, under National Association rules. The secretary of the club will be at the New Haven House, Saturday, to receive entries for Yale teams. Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, 23rd Regiment, Crescents of Tynn and Nassaus will enter teams. There will also be at the same time the following handicap events...
...Some Conditions of Intellectual Life in America." Lecture. Prof. Norton, Divinty School Chapel, 7.30 p. m. The public are invited...
...National Athletic Association will hold a tug-of-war contest for the championship of America in Brooklyn on Feb. 21st...
...Harvard Reminiscences" is the forthcoming book by the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Preacher to the University, and one of the best-beloved and venerated men in America. For a quarter of a century he has been a higher officer in the college, and it is two-thirds of a century since he first became connected with Harvard-first as a student and then as tutor. The book includes bright little monographs on scores of the college officers of the last half century or more, such men as Felton, Palfrey, Kirkland, Clarke, Hedge and Norton, besides many less well known...