Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Johnson's article on 'The American Game of Foot-Ball' in this month's Century has been read with pleasure by the undergraduates of Princeton. Being well aware of the gentleman's thorough knowledge of the game as well as of his excellent powers of judgment in such matters, the college has looked forward to the publication of the article with eager delight and with a hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country...
Professor Mercian of Columbia has gone to Athens to take charge of the American School there...
...effects on the team and its playing.' The force and truth of this whole article can hardly be overestimated. With a clear exposition of the facts, nature and method of the game, the author has explained away all of the most important objection to it. We think that our American college football game has successfully passed the unnecessary and undeserving crisis to which it has been unnaturally forced by the misrepresentations due partly to the other unasignable causes. The game demands many manly qualities, teaches self possession, courage and manliness; and so, like the great English University boat races...
...history is all in the books. In this they are much mistaken-as much as they would be if they should refer natural science and language to books. If one should learn history he must go the original sources. There are the conscious and the unconscious sources. The primitive American knew nothing of his relations to the past and the future, but by his acts he unwittingly has given us facts of his existence, as is shown by the relics to be found everywhere on this continent. We can gain but little knowledge of the less civilized nations from...
...essays must not exceed in length the amount of twenty-five pages of the North American Review...