Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leland Miller, of Sheffield, Mass., has given $40,000 to Williams College to found a professorship of American History, Literature and Eloquence. There is no such professorship at present in any college in this country...
...American" foot-ball eleven made up of college graduates, has been formed in Chicago. The players are as follows: Rushers.- Farwell, Yale; Lockwood, Columbia; Ives, Harvard; Carse, Williams; Bickham, Princeton; Lamb (captain). Yale; Harlan, Princeton; Hubbard, Harvard; Hamlin, Yale; Waller, Princeton. Quarter-back.- B. Hamlin, Yale. Half-backs.- Eldridge, Yale; Crawford, Yale; Cowling. Harvard. Full-back.- Lyman, Yale...
...Yale eleven defeated the Crescents, champions of the American Football Union, on election day in Brooklyn, by a score...
...games of the Manhattan Athletic Club on election day, four records were broken by Conneff and Mitchell. In the two mile run, Conneff lowered the American records for 1 1-4 and 1 3-4 miles, and lacked only 4 5-8 seconds of equalling the best time for the two miles. Mitchell threw a 16-pound hammer, nine ounces overweight, 130 feet. This is 2 feet, 11 inches better than the former record. He also threw the 56-pound weight 30 feet, 1 inch, breaking Condon's record of 27 feet, 9 inches...
...benefit to the educational interests of the country if a large proportion of the existing colleges could be suppressed. From statistics gathered by the undersigned in former years with great labor it was made manifest that while in the last half century the proportion of students in arts in American colleges has been gradually but steadily diminishing, the number of colleges has on the other hand, more than correspondingly increased...