Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American lacrosse team, at Whalley Range, England, last Saturday won its third victory by defeating the picked team from nine clubs of the North of England Lacrosse Association, by a score of five goals to nothing. Two of the goals were made by Nichols of Harvard. In the three games thus far the Americans have scored thirteen goals to one made by their English opponents...
...number of men in the crews was changed from six to eight, and the distance was raised to four miles. Accordingly, in the regatta of '59 and '60 Quinsigamond saw the crimson wave victorious, and an impetus given to a sport which is now so prominent a feature of American college life. In 1861 the call for volunteers was responded to by many a patriotic son of Harvard and Yale who would otherwise have competed for the laurels of the oar. Partly on this account, and partly because the faculty seemed disinclined to favor a continuance of the sport...
...fifth annual report of the executive committee of the Archeological Institute, of which Prof. Charles Eliot Norton is president, has been published in pamphlet form, together with the report of the committee on the American school which we recently reviewed...
...American lacrosse team reached Liverpool May 12th, after a fast and pleasant passage, and are now practicing daily on the grounds of Liverpool College. J. A. Hodge, a Princeton graduate, is seriously ill, and will not probably be able to play in the coming matches. It was expected that the first matches would be played on Saturday, but it had to be postponed until yesterday, and the news of the result will be a waited with interest by all college men and players interested in the game...
...point wherein the Oxford student has the advantage, or disadvantage as the reader may think, over the American college student, is the regulation that no one shall pursue separate courses of study until he has been at the university a year. No matter what his knowledge may be, every man is obliged to wait a year before trying to pass his "Moderations," as they are called; then, if successful, he is allowed to study "The Finals," or elective courses. Thus taking a three years' course instead of one of four years, is scarcely feasible or practicable...