Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Malcolm W. Ford, the champion athlete, was finally declared to be a professional at the meeting of the executive committee of the National Association of Amateur Athletes of America, Monday evening...
...rumored that the Cambridge, Eng., crew which was recently victorious over Oxford, has sent a challenge to Harvard, the race to be rowed in America at some place to be agreed upon hereafter...
...meeting of the Princeton Alumni Association in New York, President McCosh made a speech, in which he said: "The fact is, we must either march on with Harvard and Yale, or sink to be one of 400 colleges in America...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...high jump will, of course, fall to W. B. Page, '87, University of Pennsylvania, the champion of America...