Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith, Yale, '83, has been elected president of the American Foot Ball Union...
...recent Authors' Reading in Sanders Theatre, is published in this number. "The Marriage Celebration in the United States" is a companion paper to "The Marriage Celebration in the Colonies" of the March number. The article which is of most interest to students is the "First Crisis of the American Revolution," by John Fiske. The narrative is simple and intensely interesting, and the writer successfully avoids the dryness which is so common to historical sketches...
...800th anniversary of the University of Bologna, Italy, will be celebrated this summer. Delegates from the leading American Universities and Colleges have been invited, and Yale, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell and Johns Hopkins University have already signified their intention of sending delegates. The Yale Faculty have appointed Hon. Eugene Schuyler, as the Yale delegate...
...late the American School at Athens has been engaged in making some highly important excavations in Attica and the surrounding country with great success. Mr. Earle, of Columbia, '86, appointed by the director of the schools to superintend the excavations at Sikyon, has lately discovered a broken Sikyonian statue, representing Dionysius; also several coins of great historic value. Moreover, he discovered an inscription dating back to about...
...which is thought to prove that Icaria was the birthplace of the drama. According to the old Greek legends, this place was the seat of the drama, but no proof could be found to confirm this supposition. The success of Mr. Buck reflects great credit upon himself and the American School as being the first to settle the location beyond a doubt. The New York Nation gives a very accurate description of the excavations and the famous Dr. Curtins of Berlin has written a very complimentary review in a German newspaper. A report of the work of the American School...