Word: america
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...Oxford Athletic Club has declined the challenge of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America for an international track meet between the universities and colleges of the United States and those of the British Empire to be held at London with the Olympic games in 1908. The only reason given for the declination is "insuperable difficulties...
President Eliot spoke last, on the need in America for the artistic expression of the best music. Dr. Muck is a fine example of the German master of a single subject, a kind of scholarship that we of America need in all our work...
...Prothero, the well-known authority on English constitutional history, will be unable to come to America this year, History 9b, the course for the second half-year on the constitutional history of England from the Great Charter to the sixteenth century, announced to be given by him, will be conducted by Professors C. H. Haskins and S. M. Macvane and Dr. R. B. Merriman...
...meeting of the executive and advisory committees of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America will be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, at 8 o'clock this evening. The merging of the Intercollegiate Cross-Country Association with this association and the arrangements for the intercollegiate games this spring will be the main topics of discussion. The question of an intercollegiate freshman meet will also be discussed. G. Emerson '08 will represent the University...
...these periods Harvard graduated men who became leaders both in America and in England--George Downing, who became Cromwell's lieutenant and helped the cause of freedom in England; Samuel Adams, who organized the Committee of Correspondence and helped the cause of freedom in America; Increase Mather, long president of the College, and the man who secured the new charter from William and Mary; Thomas Hutchinson, in his day the most eminent citizen of the country...