Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...representatives of the English colleges an exciting contest. The games need not in any way stand as precedent. It would be undesirable for Harvard to pledge herself to take part in regular annual meetings of the kind proposed; but if it fortunately happens that an English team can visit America, the opportunity to meet them should not be lost. Such an international meeting would lead to very pleasant relations among the competing colleges, and any project which tends to bring Oxford and Cambridge into closer connection with Harvard and Yale, deserves to be encouraged...
...news of the challenge from Oxford and Cambridge to Harvard and Yale for an international field meeting in America next September, beyond that already published, had been received by the Harvard athletic authorities up to a late hour last night. This fact in itself shows pretty conclusively that the report that a copy of the challenge had been sent by cable to Harvard and Yale was incorrect, as it should have arrived yesterday at the latest. That a formal challenge has been sent by mail there is no reason to doubt...
OXFORD, ENG., June 5. - Oxford and Cambridge will send a team of picked athletes to America in September next to meet a picked team from Yale and Harvard. A joint committee of both the English colleges which has been considering the University of Pennsylvania's challenge, today cabled a challenge to Yale and Harvard, and later mailed a formal challenge...
...today cabled them a challenge and we have also mailed to them a formal challenge. We, that is, Oxford and Cambridge, would be glad to take a team to America next September, to compete with Yale and Harvard, and the decision whether this match shall take place, rests with them alone. We understand that Yale and Harvard both would have preferred to have this meeting next July, but unfortunately we cannot arrange for this. Therefore it only remains to be seen whether Yale and Harvard, in their sportsmanlike desire to bring about a contest of this character, will be willing...
...general wish to see the establishment of a similar school in Rome. With this in view, a committee of about seventy-five men, representing the forty-four leading colleges and universities of the United States and almost every city of importance, was appointed by the Archaeological Institute of America to consider the feasibility of its establishment. At a meeting of the council of he Institute at New York on May 11, the school at Rome was taken into fellowship with the Archaeological Institute and was granted a fellowship in archaeology of $600, and a certain amount to be used...