Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Friends of Higher Education of Women." The circular says: "This (the proposed) system of co-education embraces substantially all the advantages of co-education without any of its disadvantages. It also places Brown University, as a provider of higher education for women, in advance of all the other old American colleges. Thus Yale provides instruction only for graduate women. Radcliffe College instructs undergraduates, but its courses do not lead to Harvard degrees...
...that by 11, I fail to see how half a dozen or a dozen umpires can correct this game. The correction must come from the manly opinion of the college. The alumni and undergraduates of all colleges may well work together that this disgrace shall cease. It is un-American and uncollegiate. Let each one try to raise the standard of play and say that no quarter shall be given to the unfair player...
...throw myself on your generosity. I am jealous of the credit of American sports, and I ask you to join all your efforts to say that bitterness and hatred shall cease. This spirit should be banished from any field where college men meet...
...train the track athletes of the New York Athletic Club the coming summer. Mr. Murphy will take the New York club's candidates in hand about May 20, after he has developed the Yale sprinters for the intercollegiate games. He has developed more crack sprinters than any other American trainer...
...animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks as an American citizen who would not see the intellectual and moral standards of his countrymen turned topsy-turvy...