Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...smoke talk" in the evening in the rooms of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, corner of Palmer and Brattle streets. In the afternoon there will be addresses by Arthur P. Stone, president of the Harvard Republican club, Theodore Cox of New York, president of the American Republican College League, and others. In the evening informal talks will be given by prominent students and several Massachusetts Republicans of prominence. The meetings are open to all, members of the Harvard Republican Club being specially urged to be present in view of the recent action of the Corporation...
...then formed of men of high reputation and influence who prepared a set of questions as to the effect of football which were sent not only to old players of the three leading universities, but also to the players on the teams of last season at all the American colleges and to the active players in the leading preparatory schools...
...deny that the English undergraduate is as much more athletic in his tendencies than the American undergraduate as the greater number of rowing men at Oxford and Cambridge and the keener rowing spirit would indicate. While it is unquestionably true, as I have already written, that the English nation, and of course the English university men, are more generally inclined towards sport than are we, yet the paucity in numbers of our rowing men may not be traced to the want of athletic inclination in our universities...
...matter of water and general rowing facilities, there is no comparison. The Oxford and Cambridge courses are to those of Harvard and Yale, or any other of the American university courses of which I know anything, as the (about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts...
...Bearing in mind the secretive methods of his own 'varsity crews at New London, it takes an American college man completely off his bearing to witness the absolute indifference of Oxford and Cambridge to either private or public supervision of their practice on the Thames...