Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bernard Dracham, Columbia, '82, received the first prize in Arabic at the Seminary of Oriental Languages, University of Breslau. This is the first instance of such honor being gained by an American...
...committee on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, of which Prof. John Williams White is chairman, meets today at 11 o'clock. Their third annual report will be delivered tomorrow at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America...
...foremost educators in this country. In an address, delivered some few days ago at the lying of the corner stone of a student society hall, he took occasion to make some statements, which, on that account, deserve attention. "The problem of housing students." he says especially in American universities, has long been a serious one. To coop them up in large dormitories or barracks, with possibly a tutor or young professor to act as policeman over them, has always been a fruitful cause of disorder. So fully is this recognized that, where it is possible, dormitories have been frequently done...
...last games of the Young America cricket club, W. B. Page, of the University of Pennsylvania, tied the American amateur record of 5 feet, 9 inches, in the running high jump...
...American Queen contains one of the recent Lampoon sketches by Mr. Santayana...