Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year for the tenth time Mr. D. L. Moody has invited the students of America to meet at Northfield, Mass., for conference and Bible study under the direction of the College Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...
...DEAR SIR: - A joint committee of the Oxford University Athletic Club and the Cambridge University Athletic Club, at a conference held at Oxford, resolved to send a challenge to the universities of Yale and Harvard, inviting them to partake in an athletic competition, to take place in America at some date in the autumn as may mutually be agreed upon...
...best athletes would be unable to leave England at that time, being detained by the public examinations, whilst others who had already engaged themselves to take part in the forthcoming competition of the London Athletic Club vs. the New York Athletic Club were not prepared to go to America in July and also in September. You will see that our only course was to suggest to you an autumn meeting, which may come before or come after the fixture already agreed upon between the London Athletic Club and the New York Athletic Club, as may hereafter be deemed best...
...matter has given much worry to previous committees, and I know that Arthur R. Crandell '92, Frank W. Hallowell '93, and Russell B. Beals '94, chairmen of the respective Class Day Committees, and all graduates who wish to see this annual celebration the gayest and jolliest college holiday in America will heartily endorse all that I have said about the desirability of having every man in the lock-step line about the tree...
...once, and final action will be taken as soon as possible. No university meeting will be necessary, as the officers of the Yale Athletic Association have full power to act independently under advice of the Graduate Advisory Committee. Yale will be glad to meet the English universities in America. It will be hardly probable that Yale and Harvard will agree to a three-mile run. The official letter may have fuller particulars, but by 'weight-putting' only sixteen-pound shot is probably meant, as the fifty-six pound weight is not used in England. I see no advantage in having...