Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fastest professional time for running 100 yards is 9 1-4 seconds, and was made by George Seward, an American, nearly thirty years ago, in England...
...trustees of Cornell have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university, from the American sculptor. Story, who is now working in Rome...
...Phillips Brooks will be the select preacher in the University of Cambridge next June. This is the second time that this honor has been conferred on an American clergyman...
...John says that a majority of the students in American colleges are prohibitionists in theory, though not connected with the prohibition party. He says that Harvard is behind in this respect...
...state. An inspection of the Catalogue shows that the collection consists of 18 marbles, 47 bronzes, 97 portraits, 135 copies of celebrated pictures, and 436 original paintings by modern artists. Of great interest are the historical portraits nearly all of which are of persons who have been prominent in American political affairs. Among the modern artists represented by important works in the collection are Gerome, Schreyer, Bouguereau, Van Marcke, Verboeck-hoven, Coomans, De Haas, Constant, and Richter. The pictures by Bouguereau, Schreyer, Van Marcke, Constant, and Verboeckhoven are among the most notable works of these artists. -[Nation...