Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game, it is said, may have been played in America long before it appeared in Europe, since the Washoe Indians of Nevada have a species of it, but the ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans...
...idea of founding such an institution as the present school has become was first proposed by Professor Norton. The Archacological Institute of America took up the idea with energy and in co-operation with the leading colleges of the country opened the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, October...
...Magazine opens with an interesting study of Canadian journalism by Walter Blackburn Harte. It is an article that will attract journalists and laymen in every corner of America, and it will appeal to the former more especially from the fact that the writer is a newspaper man and knows the difficulties of the craft from the inside. Mr. Hart's remarks, "In a Corner at Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal...
...third of the Symphony Concerts was given last night in Sanders Theatre before the usual large audience. Mme. Helen Hopekirk, who appeared in Walker Hall, Amherst, two days ago, for the first time this season in America, was the soloist. The programme was a varied one, including a Suite by MacDowell, representing the modern school and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony composed in the early part of this century, and Rubinstein's Concerto for Pianoforte in G major. The work of Mme. Hopekirk was very favorably received; her wonderful accuracy and precision in the most intricate parts of the Concerto showed...
...maintained that the college of the City of Mexico is the oldest in America. It was founded fifty years before Harvard...