Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decided by the Western Intercollegiate A. A. to challenge the winners of the eastern intercollegiate track and field contests to a joint meeting for the championships of America. A committee will be appointed to confer with the eastern management as to place and time of games...
...series of three games will be played, one at Providence, another at Cambridge, and the third, if necessary, on neutral grounds. The first game will be played this afternoon on Roger Williams Park, Providence. Brown has an exceptionally strong team, two of her men being chosen for the all-America team which went to Canada last year. Harvard has also a strong team, so that a close and exciting game may be looked for. The line-up of the Harvard team this afternoon will be as follows: Rushers, Goodridge, Clarkson; centre, Stevens; halfback, Clark: goal, Baldwin...
...annual Day of Prayer for Colleges? To one, a graduate of another institution where the day is always observed by special services, and has been a marked occasion many times in its history in its religious effect, it is a matter of regret that Harvard, the mother university of America. founded for the education of ministers of the Gospel, and the scene at present of so much practical religious activity, should ignore this day so generally observed and so rich a blessing in the past...
England has ninety-four universities, and America 300; yet there are 2728 more professors in the former than in the latter...
...Castle Square Opera Company demonstrated on Monday evening beyond the possibility of a doubt that it is the equal of any opera company in America. Verdi's masterpiece, "Il Trovatore," was the opera produced, and the Castle Square Theatre was filled to overflowing with an audience that showed unbounded enthusiasm throughout the performance...