Word: americans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Barrett Wendell '77, who has been granted leave of absence for the coming year, will give a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, and several French provincial universities, on "American Literature, Manners, Customs, and Institutions." Professor Wendell will sail for Europe, October 13, on the "Cymric." His duties will call for two lectures a week at the Sorbonne from November 1 until the middle of March, and lectures at the universities of Dijon, Lille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyons and Caen, until July. Owing to the success of the French lectureships established by J. H. Hyde '98, of New York...
...international track meet between Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge. The first meet, held at the Queen's Club in 1899, was won by the English team by the score of 5 to 4. In 1901, however, in a return meet held at Berkeley Oval. New York, the American team won decisively by a score of 6 to 3, the score in each case being made on the basis of one point for each event. In both meets the Americans won the 120-yard hurdles, the 100-yard dash, the high jump and the hammer threw, but lost...
...final game of the Yale-Princeton series will be played next Saturday on the American League grounds, New York City...
This will be the third international track meet between the two American and two English colleges. The first meet, held at the Queen's Club in 1899, was won by the English team by a score of five to four. In 1901, however, in a return meet held at the Berkeley Oval, New York, the American team won decisively by a score of 6 points to 3. In both meets the Americans won the 120-yard hurdles, the 100-yard dash, the high jump and the hammer throw, but lost the 880-yard, mile and two-mile runs...
...graduates, and other regular departments, complete an instructive issue of the magazine, there appears the announcement of a gift of $150 to the Editor, to be used for prizes for the best three articles on the possibility and necessity of establishing a modified English college system at large American universities, with particular reference to Harvard...