Word: american
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second University crew will compete this afternoon in the seventh annual Henley Regatta of the American Rowing Association on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia...
...Middle Ages, the universities were huge; but the men there spoke and wrote one language--Latin--and were bound together by the church. Today scholarship cannot be one in the same sense. The unity comes in another way. Every year more American students go to Germany, and, as a result, a revolution of thought is occurring. The arrival of German professors in this country brought something few could get until then, for only the wealthy could afford to pursue their studies abroad. Of these professors, Professor Kuehnemann is one of the most cherished. President Lowell closed with these words: "When...
Besides entering the Stewards' Challenge Cup race for first eight-oared shells in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia tomorrow, the second University crew will also enter the New England Challenge Cup race for junior collegiate eights, in which it will meet the Cornell junior university crew and the Pennsylvania second university crew. The Cornell crew is mostly composed of sophomores, and will be practically the same eight which will race the University crew...
...this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas, but I know that to make a college what it should...
This evening the members of the second University crew will leave on the Federal express for Philadelphia, where they will stay at the Hotel Aldine until after their race on Saturday in the American Henley Regatta. The crew has been entered in the race for first eight-oared shells, in which it will row against the Malta Boat Club of Philadelphia. It is possible that the crew will also be entered in the race for second University crews...