Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...executive committee, G. T. Kirby, of Columbia, discussed the refusal of the English universities to take part in an international meet this summer and closed by asking the individual college athletic associations to contribute to the Olympic fund. A motion to donate $1,000 to the expenses of the American Olympic team was passed unanimously by the delegates...
From the Hon. Charlemagne tower '72, American Ambassador at Berlin, as a gift to the Frank J. Scott Collection of Busts of Julius Caesar, a cast of the antique bust of Julius Caesar in the Royal Museum at Berlin...
...meeting of the Freshman class last night in Lower Massachusetts, it was announced that the class dinner would be held at the American House in Boston on Saturday, March 28. Tickets will be $2 each. In order to file the bond of $300 each man will be required to pay one dollar extra which will be refunded after the dinner if there has been no destruction of property...
...Clark has been intimately connected with the Congo movement for twenty-seven years. He was a missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...
...meeting of the International Chess Match Committee, representing Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, five members of the American chess sextet were chosen to play in the match against Oxford and Cambridge on March 21. The players selected will play at the first five boards in the following order: W. H. Hughes, Pennsylvania; R. J. Wolff, Columbia; R. T. Black, Cornell; P. Blumberg, Columbia; K. S. Johnson 1G., Harvard...