Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bryce's American Commonwealth. 2 vols. Price...
Cardinal Gibbons announces that over $8, 000, 000 have been collected for the new Catholic university at Washington. Several buildings are in process of erection. The cardinal and the American bishops have requested the concession of academic privilege to the university from the Pope and have asked his approval of its statutes...
...American Athletic Union will hold an indoor meeting, Jan. 19, 1889, at the Madison Square Garden to commemorate the second year of its formation. All the events are open to amateurs, and three prizes will be awarded in each event. The following events will be contested: 75-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, half-mile run, mile run, mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, 200-yards hurdle race, pole vault, standing broad jump, running high jump, putting the 24-lb. shot and throwing the 56-lb. weight. The entrance fee will be one dollar in each event...
Congress has passed a bill incorporating the American Historical Society. Among the founders of the association are Mr. Justin Windsor of Harvard, ex-president A. D. White of Cornell, and the Hon. George Bancroft...
...Ladies." by Charles E. Clay; "Fast Ice Yachts," by Col. Chas. H. Norton; the "Lake Champlain Yacht Club," by Fred. G. Mather, and "Hints to Football Captains," by Walter C. Camp. In addition to these are the concluding installments of two excellent papers, the first of the series on "American College Athletics," Harvard University, by J. Mott Hallowell, and "Sport-Past, Present and Future," by Alex. Hunter...