Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honor of having a seat in the boat that would represent America would be a great incentive to men to try for the crew. And perhaps under this incentive we might form a crew which might beat Yale occasionally...
...happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." The paper is informing on a multitude of hitherto obscure points in early American history, and is delightfully diversified with incidents. Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch is by Walstein Root, on the "Hamilton Oneida Academy in 1794," the germ of Hamilton College. The fourth article in this superb number is a study by Charles H. Peck of the public life and character of "Aaron Burr," in which he aims to substitute natural explanations...
...been obtained. An announcement reaches us with the president's report, which should be referred to in this connection. It is the programme of courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages offered for the present year. From this we learn that the most complete department of its kind in America exists at Columbia, and that, under the inspiring leadership of so cultured a scholar as Dr. H. T. Peck, no fewer than nineteen courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages are announced. This is a remarkable showing, and when considered in connection with the courses of Professors Bloomfield and Haupt...
...McGlynn, in the New York Sun, expresses the opinion that since Cornell is the genuine and typical American University, it will ultimately become the head centre of learning in America...
...mile bicycle championship of the world was contested recently in England, and France, America, England and Scotland were represented. The race was won by Dubois of France in 3 hours, 6 minutes and 23 seconds...