Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which can support a learned class of such disinterested devotion to a life of study must either be exceedingly wealthy or exceedingly despotic. The import of the passage after all is only that the class of which college students in China are composed never contains any Philistines, while in America - in America it would be difficult to make such an assertion...
...cannot America support a truly great university like Berlin or even some of lesser magnitude...
...Economic History of Europe and America since the Seven Years' War. Lectures. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 11. Professor Dunbar...
...Princeton, since these teams are more evenly matched against ours. The matches arranged are, May 24th, Haverford College, and May 25th, University of Pennsylvania. Haverford has a strong team and will prove a very dangerous adversary, while the University of Pennsylvania presents almost as strong an eleven as America can show. Going to Philadelphia, the home of American cricket, our eleven can hardly hope for much success, though the practice it will get will tend to very good results in the future...
...Goodwin, of Harvard College, is the amateur champion half-mile runner of America, with records of 50 3/4 seconds for a quarter, and one minute, 56 7/8 seconds for a half-mile. In our estimation, he is capable of beating every authenticated record for 440 and 880 yard running that has ever been made in the world. - [Amateur Athlete...