Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Myers, the American champion runner, won the quarter and half-mile scratch and the half-mile handicap races over competitors from the London Athletic Club and the Mosely Harriers last Saturday at the meeting of the Widnes Athletic Club, near Manchester, England...
...article is elaborately illustrated, and contains a complete record of the races, from the victory of the Harvard crew in the old One ida over the Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale at New London last spring. The development of the rowing interest in American colleges is traced, and the present methods of training and racing are fully described. There can be but little doubt that Outing will be in demand this month at Harvard...
...still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty forms with far less meaning than the Prof. we see prefixed to the names of sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both...
...subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which imposes upon each individual responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. In support of this position he cites the example of European universities, which received students as young on the average as the freshmen of American colleges, and which have had exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school training has been tolerably comprehensive. President Eliot thinks he should be prepared at the age of 18 to enter a university where the choice...
...order to obtain a degree, but the studies which the experience of those who have been over the ground long before agree in prescribing for him, and, as a rule, he follows the line marked out without question. There is probably still room for reform in the curriculum of American colleges, but it is not impossible that President Eliot is going a little fast and is a little too enthusiastic, and we do not believe any considerable number of American parents will agree with him in his conclusion that the average youth of eighteen possesses sufficient judgment and stability...