Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...famous class of 1829 of Harvard, there are since the death of Holmes only four surviving members: Dr. Edward L. Cunningham of Newport, R. I., Rev. Samuel May (the class secretary) of Leicester, Rev. Samuel F. Smith of Newton (the author of "America"), and Chas, S. Storrow of Boston...
...Wieniawski, with whom he studied and many of whose characteristics he possesses. The short career of this young Belgian violinist has been one of uninterrupted success, and his advent in this country has aroused an interest hardly equalled by that of any of the great artists who have visited America in the last decade...
During the past six years Caspar Whitney's All America football elevens have contained nineteen players from Harvard, twenty-two from Yale, twenty from Princeton and five from the University of Pennsylvania. The largest representation of any college in any single year is five. Harvard had five players on the team in '90 and '92. The only players who have had a place on the team during four years are Marshall Newell of Harvard and F. A. Hinkey of Yale. Harvard has furnished five halfbacks, one quarterback, three centre men, two guards, five tackles and three ends. Of the substitutes...
...come, not only from American colleges, but in some cases from the great English and European Universities. All of which goes to show that Harvard is, in the true sense of the word, a university, and to prove her right to be considered the leading institution of learning in America...
...HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 19. - Malcolm G. Chace, organizer of the invitation college team which is to visit Canada the coming holidays, tonight announced the following players who will represent America in the contests in ice hockey in Canadian rinks: M. G. Chace, captain; F. A. Hovey, of Harvard; R. D. Wrenn, of Harvard; A. E. Foote, of Yale; Wm. E. Larned, of Brown, and G. B. Matteson, of Brown. All are well known in the tennis world. The first contest will take place December 27 and the trip includes a series of eight games played in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal...