Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the graduate clubs of several of the American Universities in New York last spring it seemed clearly advisable that one should be established at Princeton, and consideration of the matter terminated in its establishment on October 23, with the sanction of the faculty and trustees of the college. It is hoped that by means of this organization the graduate students will be brought into closer touch with one-another and that by the exchange of ideas and results of personal research great mutual benefit will result...
...rules of the American Association will govern the match. Five men constitute a team, each man to shoot at 30 birds in strings of 5. There will be three traps arranged 5 yards apart in the are of a circle and concealed by a screen. The traps will be unknown; that is, the bird may fly from any one of them...
Under the Red Flag is the title of Mr. Edward King's latest story. Henry T. Coates, the publisher, has given the book an attractive dressing and it will be popular. It is an account of the adventures of three American boys during the Paris Commune...
...Townsend Harris, First American Envoy to Japan. By W. E. Griffis, D.D. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston...
...popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...