Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last the origin of the reported desire of the victorious Oxford crew to row the American college champions has been discovered. At the dinner given to the English eight by their college boating authorities, after the recent victory over Cambridge, some one authorized an American sporting writer who was present to arrange a race with the Harvard-Yale winner, provided the American crew would assume the challenge. "Bob" Cook, Yale's sagacious adviser in rowing matters, in commenting on this proposition, says, "This socalled official message from Oxford cannot be taken notice of by Yale until direct word is received...
...American Institute of instruction will meet in convention at Bethlehem, N. H., July 9 to 12. Among the speakers will be William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, and Presidents Eliot of Harvard, Tucker of Dartmouth, and Whitman of Colby...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Evils of the Present Caucus System. Mr. F. W. Dallinger. University...
...dual capacities, and would add eight full members to one branch of Congress, and that the locally representative house. He attempted to show that the first of these aspects was an unwise admixture of executive and legislative functions, and that the second ran counter to the allpervading theory of American constitutional government...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Evils of the Present Cancus System. Mr. F. W. Dallinger. University...