Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Landscapes in American Poetry" by Lucy Larcom...
...Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line...
...field sports and other subjects in a preparatory school. A third member, Mr. Wagenhurst, who played in the games in the earlier part of the season, including a championship game, had been a member of a professional baseball team. At a meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the American Intercollegiate Football Association, held in New York, on Nov. 4, 1889, a rule was passed that no professional athlete should take part in any contest of the Association. This rule barred the member of the Princeton team referred to. The Princeton delegate alone voted against the passage of the rule...
...Charles A. Gregory, of Chicago. delivered last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Natural History society, an extremely interesting lecture on "The Great American Desert," or, as Mr. Gregory calls it, "The Arid Region...
...Gregory, of Chicago, who will lecture this evening on "The Great American Desert, or the Arid Regions and the Means of its Reclamation," is a member of the class...