Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should be deprived of his exercise simply because a ball game is in progress and the seats are full of people. But the objections have been not so much to the playing itself as to the fact that the men have been really careless about their personal appearance. American college athletes have the reputation of being far less careful about their costumes than the English. Doubtless the influence at work in the gymnasium is apt to make one a bit neglectful. But after a moment's reflection any one must realize that a sleeveless rowing shirt, however immaculate...
...WEDNESDAY.Lecture. American Archxology. Professor Putnam. Peabody Museum...
...executive committee of the American school at Athens, of which Professor Seymour of Yale is chairman, at a meeting at New Haven Saturday, elected Professor T. D. Goodell of Yale professor of Greek language and literature for the coming year. Richard Norton, son of Charles Eliot Norton, was elected instructor in the school, and Professor Wheeler of the University of Vermont was elected secretary of the committee...
PIERIAN.- Last concert of the year tonight with the Naval Reserve at the American House, Hanover street, Boston. Take the Bowdoin Sq.car and be there at 7.40. No dress suits. Any one who cannot come must see me personally early today...
...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...