Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lynch, one of the eight men who conspired to blow up London with dynamite, has confessed that the plot was hatched in America by Dr. Gallagher and Whitehead and that O'Donovan Rossa was implicated in the scheme...
There were established in America, said the lecturer, before the Declaration of Independence, nine colleges - Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King's or Columbia, the University of Pensylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Queen's or Rutgers. The church element entered largely into them all. A wonderful fact was the establishment of Harvard when the wolf was still at its doors. The founders of those colonial colleges were animated with the desire to provide learned ministers, learned laymen and to educate the Indians, and with a love of higher education for its own sake. The methods attending their establishment were typified...
...formed most extensive plans for the future. These include the erection of a magnificent club house containing a large swimming bath, bowling alleys, parlors, reading room, library, hall, tennis courts and a gymnasium 100 by 60 feet, which shall be the most complete academy for physical culture in America. Members will receive instructions from competent professors in every branch of manly and athletic exercises. All this is to be capped by a running track and field on top of the roof of the building for the purpose of open air exercise. Also a new boat house for the club will...
...English universities." And, with this in view, President Porter points to the future of Columbia should she found an advanced school, for which President Barnard has already asked $4,000,000. "The great obstacle in the way of a university, in its truest sense," he continues, "in America, is the need of proper preliminary instruction. We may have all the departments, but, when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges...
Notwithstanding Mr. Parnell's advice to the contrary, the convention of the Irish National Land League of America will be held at Philadelphia on the 25th inst...