Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics did not begin to have the prominence in American life that they have hell since. There were no great athletic clubs - as we look at them to-day - few if any cinder paths, no good stop watches, and no accredited timers. How are we to wonder, then, that all sorts of unreliable and preposterous records were accepted as good, on the word of half a dozen interested "sports?" Read, for instance, these gems of the collection mentioned above, which after all is a very incomplete...
Five miles; 24 min. 57 sec., by Wm. Jackson, better known as "the American Deer," in England...
...there a probability of an important change in the immediate future.Even the fastest runner can hardly hope to beat 10 seconds in the 100 yards, without a flying-start, though many cracks, including our own Baker, are said to have done it in nine and a fraction. The following American amateur records, taken from Spirit's revised list, shows what we are coming to and what we probably shall cling to for some time...
...American Statesmen, 84 cents per vol.; Lowell: Democracy; Tennyson: (New) Locksley Hall; Adams: The Emancipation of Mass.; Bain: The Senses and the Intellect; Mill: Utilitarianism; Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...
...report relates to the "list of publications of Harvard university and its officers, 1880-1885. "In this list, about three-quarters of the 1,813 entries relate to science, including in that term medicine. Very inaccurate estimates of the relative activity in literary and scientific publications of some leading American universities having of late years obtained currency, and perhaps credit, through the public press, it is permissible to remark in the interests of truth, that it would be discreditable indeed to Harvard university - old and well-equipped as it is - if any other American institution could approach...