Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bachelor of Arts announces the following as being the make-up of the all American team of old football players: Lewis, centre; Heffelfinger and Riggs or Buell, guards; Waters and Newell, tackles; Osgood and Hinkey, ends; King, quarterback; Graves or Laurie Bliss and Knipe, halfbacks; Butterworth, fullback...
HERE'S an intelligent companion and one that will successfully defend you in time of danger. Pure bred American bull terriers, male and female, for sale at very low price. Handsomely marked and possessing high degree of intelligence. Address "K," CRIMSON office...
...freshmen who enter without French; Philosophy, one elementary course; Practical Ethics, one course; Political Economy, one elementary and a more advanced course; History, three and one half courses, one in Mediaeval and Modern European History, one in the Constitutional and Political History of the United States, one in American History down to 1783, and a half course in Constitutional Government; History of the Fine Arts, two full courses; Mathematics, four half-courses, one each in Algebra, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry, and Solid Geometry; Physics, two consecutive courses; Chemistry, one course in descriptive Chemistry; Botany and Zoology, one half course in each...
...race of next summer, the plan of sending a crew from New Haven to compete in the Henley regatta is a natural one. If developed with the success of past years, the Yale crew would probably be as representative as any that could be sent from any of the American colleges, and as such its contest with English college crews would be watched with very great interest by Americans generally. It is apparently hoped by the Yale authorities that the meeting of college crews from both sides of the water will lead the way in a subsequent year...
...itself, the desire to bring about a contest between English and American crews or other teams is natural and harmless. And if it could occasionally be done, say once in four years, there would probably be few objections. Any arrangement for more frequent contests we believe should be out of the question. By creating an abnormal interest, they would be sure to make athletics assume a position in college life, at least in America, entirely out of proportion to their real importance...