Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...could hardly accept your invitation without assuming, in appearance at least, that Harvard and Yale occupy the preeminent position among American universities which is held among English universities by Oxford and Cambridge. As there is no foundation in fact for such a pretension, we think it better for university athletics in this country, as well as for university interests in general, that we should not lend any countenance to it, and that we should, furthermore, avoid all semblance of a spirit of exclusiveness towards our sister universities. Nor, considering the narrower ground of athletic skill, can we forget that...
...greater or less extent, in the following named law schools: Columbia, New York; Metropolis, New York; Northwestern University, Chicago; Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California; and Iowa State University. The collections of select cases to be used in connection with instruction have been introduced also in seven other American law schools. The number of students at the Harvard Law School, for six years prior to the academic year 1886, averaged 154. The number is now 404. Since 1886 the courses of instruction at the school have increased from 18 to 26, and the number of hours of instruction a week from...
...Yale News has compared the various English and American college athletic records, so as to give some idea of the probable outcome of a meeting between Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale if it should be arranged. The records were made on different grounds and under diverse conditions and therefore an allowance must be made in comparisons. Of the English records, only those of Oxford made a year ago, are considered. The Harvard and Yale records are those of the last dual games...
...yards the American representatives would all come from Harvard, being chosen from N. W. Bingham, Jr., N. B. Marshall and W. H. Vincent. Although Oxford won the event against Yale and G. Gordon, in 51s, Vincent won the intercollegiate in 50 4/5s. Considering the track, however, the Englishman's performance is rather the better...
Judging by the old records, everything in the weight throwing should come to the American representatives. Hickok of Yale has a record of 44 ft. 1 1/2 in. with the sixteen-pound shot, and of 135 ft. 7 1/2 in. with the sixteen-pound hammer. Cross of Yale also has thrown the hammer 135 ft., and A. Brown of this university has put the shot over forty feet. The Oxford men last year did but little in the events, G. Robertson throwing the hammer from a 30-foot ring 101 ft., and A. F. Mailing putting the shot...