Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London last June he flung his hat in the air in giving vent to his joy. Probably no one knew better than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation of the college has much to do with his selection, especially when he is allowed to make it himself...
Article I.-The name of the association shall be the American Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association...
...question is often asked why the representatives that Cornell sends to the American intercollegiate field meeting have never won anything for the university. The men that have been sent from here, have, in several cases, done performances at home quite equal to any done at other colleges; they have trained faithfully, and done everything that could be suggested by an experienced trainer to insure success, yet they have been invariably beaten...
...current number of the "Century" magazine, Julian Hawthorne and Henry Eckford have contributed timely articles on the subject of rowing by the undergraduates of our American universities. One point upon which the two may be considered to agree, although there is considerable divergence of opinion between them in other matters, is the uselessness and absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle...
Transit gloria mundi, and with it there has departed one of the world's noblest thinkers. It is with deep grief that we announce the death of the Great American Traveller. Daniel Pratt is dead. We shall all miss his familiar figure when the spring of the year returns...