Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON has received a copy of the fifth and sixth annual reports of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The report is very encouraging, and proves that the members of the managing committee and board of directors are the right men in the right place. The following extract from the report will show the scheme of work for the year...
...John Fiske began on Tuesday a course of lectures on American History at the University of Penn...
...Rolfe, whose editions of Shakes peare's works are so much used in American colleges, is delivering a course of Saturday moring lectures on Shakespeare's works at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston...
...Step by step such reforms have been taking place in the American game, but it remained for the season of 1887 to inaugurate the most radical, as well as the most successful measures. Graduates of the colleges sent a representative before the convention in the summer, and asked the Association to adopt a constitution, in which should be incorporated these two salient features: A change to two referees, and the appointment of one of these to be in the hands of graduates. The Association most willingly adopted the suggestion of the alumni, and the result has been more satisfactory than...
...There is one thing which we have thus far passed over, but which is destined, if it continue, to make great trouble and leave an ugly mark on the American game. This is interference. It is something which has grown rapidly in the last three years, and which, if not legislated against, will threaten the very life of the game. It is not to be rushed hurriedly against and cut out by rules whose after affect no one can measure, but it is the duty of every true foot-ball player to give his best attention at once to such...