Word: american
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Those who wish to hear what a Harvard graduate, observer and former instructor in American History has to say on the issues of the present campaign will have an opportunity to do so on Wednesday evening, October 17, at Union Hall, Main street, Cambridge-port, when Henry Cabot Lodge, '71, is to make his only speech in Cambridge during the campaign. He is a good example, to men of all parties, of the scholar in politics. Taking a Ph. D. in 1875 for his essay on Anglo-Saxon Sand-Saws, he became successively university lecturer, editor of the North American...
Some account of the work of this association since its inauguration may be of interest to the college. A meeting was held in the spring of '83 at Trinity for the purpose of forming a tennis association which should be open to all American colleges. At this meeting but four colleges were represented. An invitation was extended to Harvard and Williams, but the latter, on account of the death of representive players in college, was unable to accept. In the fall of the same year, a tournament, which was to be the first of a series of annual contests...
...grounds of the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club, on which all subsequent contests have taken place. The winners of the tournament were: Singles, Knapp of Yale and Brinley of Trinity; doubles, Knapp and Shipman of Yale, and Chase and Pratt of Amherst. By 1886, all the leading American colleges of the East had joined the association. The tournament of '86 gave first prize in singles to Brinley of Trinity, and second to Thacher of Yale; in the doubles, to Knapp and Thacher of Yale and Brinley and Paddock of Trinity. In 1887, University of Penn, was represented for the first...
...evening session, President Kendall of Cornell read a paper on "The Teaching of Pedagogy in Colleges and Universities." He contrasted our public schools with the German gymnasium and real schools, and showed American schools to be greatly inferior. The remedy he said was in a systematic teaching of pedagogy in American colleges...
...then thrown open to the house and the speaking continued with enthusiasm until 10.50 o'clock. The chair first recognized Mr. L. McK. Garrison, L. S., who stated that the forgeries from the London Spectator and Times were still circulated by the Republicans. The comparison between English and American prices, also issued as a campaign document, was too indefinite to be criticized. There were twenty more who contended for the floor...