Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cornell Sun, speaking of Iowing, says: "That Cornell is the only American university that for any given period has held the undisputed title of champions of America...
DEAR SIR-I write you once more to see if there is really no chance for a race between Yale and Cornell. We sincerely believe that we have the fastest university eight in America, and we are desirous of meeting a worthy foe and settling the question. We believe that the races Yale has won put her in such a position that she is in honor bound to receive a challenge from a crew with Cornell's record...
...much as on the athletics of any other college. Yale, too, will recognize this fact and act accordingly. Yale cannot, although she so wish, decline a challenge from Harvard in any branch of athletics, and thus Harvard and Yale will be as heretofore the leading athletic colleges of America, although the high pressure policy of some other college may now and then bring out a team capable of defeating either Yale or Harvard...
...following is a summary of the annual Cornell Register. There are in the university 1306 students (of whom 157 are women), making it one of the four largest colleges in America. The students are divided by classes as follows: Graduates 78, seniors 154, juniors 194, sophomores 315, freshmen 411, specials 50, and in the schools of law and pharmacy 110. New York sends 785, the other states, 469, Massachusetts sending 39. The other countries represented are Canada, Japan, Germany, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Sandwich Islands, Nicaragua, England, France, Honduras, Russia, Switzerland, Trinidad, and the U. S. of Columbia...
...library of Yale university has been presented by J, S. Morgan with a copy of the Fac-Similes of Manuscripts Relative to America from 1763 to 1783, in the archives of England, France, Holland and Spain. Two hundred copies only of the work will be printed and the plates will be destroyed as quickly as the complete work is issued. The work will comprise 100 volumes, the cost is $2,500, and ten years will be required to complete...