Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral Discussion (opened by Mr. Dickerman): The Problem of American Shipping. Sever...
Last Friday's issue of the Evening Post contains an admirable letter on the oft repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational...
...bring together men of common ties and sympathies, and, by this union, to bring them, in turn, into contact with all the rest of the university men. This system works admirably among our Swedish brothers, and it would seem to recommend itself to favor among students in American universities. Nothing can be more pleasant than acquaintance with men from one's own state or city, and frequently the acquaintance would never be made unless by some such method as this...
Myers' retirement (if such is the case) will leave a huge gap in American athletics that will be a long time healing up, while such men as Baker and Goodwin are objects of pride and admiration to their countrymen, still the fact that they confine their powers almost entirely to college games and seldom enter open amateur competitions, detracts considerably from their importance as representatives of athletics in this country. * * * What a splendid list of high jumpers we have now. Page, little, wiry, cat-like Page, hit the record such a crack this year as to send...
...Princetonian in a very readable article on the necessity of altering some of the existing foot-ball rules closes as follows: "To perpetuate the American 'scrimmage' in its present form interference, the rule that permits a rusher to hold his man, i.e, holds with the hands, must first be prohibited under severe penalties; and the holding of the ball at all by the opposing center-rusher should be simply disallowed...