Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team composed of amateur American cricketers sailed on Dec. 17 for the West Indies and are now playing a series of games there...
...learned that he was induced to recommend the purchase of the park by facts brought to his knowledge by the trustees of Clark University, which were substantially these: Nearly a year ago Rev. Eli Fay, D. D., of Los Angeles, Cal., made an offer to the American Unitarian Association through Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, to give $600,000 for the endowment of a college for women, to be located somewhere in Massachusetts. Dr. Fay's conditions were that the college should be a memorial of his wife, and should bear her name, and that the city or town...
Heyse's "In Paradise," translated; Kitchen's "France," Vol. 1; Smith's "Students' Greece;" Schouler's "History of the U. S.;" Von Holst's "Constitutional History" and "Constitutional Law;" Bolles' "Financial Legislation;" and Johnston's "American Politics" are in stock...
...Watson, the designer of the Thistle, is building a centre-board sloop for an American gentleman...
...clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature of plants in summer, Historia civil is and Historia natural is were close companions in all early academic courses, and they have remained associates in some American colleges down to the present day. (9) The absence of Latin from the entire plan of study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students were required to speak Latin in the class-rooms and in the college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College...