Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henley regatta occurs in July there is little doubt that Cornell will send a crew to compete in the race. The new four-cornered American agreement places Cornell in a better position all round. It obviates the necessity and danger of training a crew for two races in America-those with Harvard and Pennsylvania. Dean White has written to ascertain the date of the Henley regatta, and if a favorable reply is received, negotiations will probably begin at once...
...virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works of art in America...
...long-promised "Life of Agassiz," by Jules Marcou, is at last announced for immediate publication. M. Marcou is the only surviving European naturalist who came with Agassiz to this country, and he was closely associated with him both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts...
Whatever the United States may attempt in the way of official remonstrance the pressing need now is to provide some relief for the half million whom the late ravages have left almost wholly destitute. This work of relief has been undertaken by the Red Cross in America and to make it effective it is necessary that at least $500.000 should be raised in a very brief time. To give Harvard students an opportunity to further such a noble cause, it was resolved last night that a committee of the Religious Unions should be appointed to receive subscriptions from the entire...
...January issue of The Bachelor of Arts is a particularly interesting number. The table of contents includes an article by F. S. Horan, the captain of the Cambridge Track Athletic Team in the contest with Yale this fall. He gives his experiences and impressions as an English athlete in America. Another article, interesting especially to Princeton men, is by Jesse Lynch Williams '92, and entitled "Instead of Fraternities at Princeton." In a very easy style he tells what the upper-classman clubs are and gives a history of their foundation and progress...