Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...thirty years of service here; that William Ellery Channing was thrown away when he was imprisoned in the pulpit; that Dr. Wolsey was wasted in the charge of Yale College, and that Mr. Bancroft did better service as Secretary of the Navy than as historian of America. It supposes that Thiers is the best administrator, because Thiers writes the best history. Now the writers on the other side of the water may determine this as they choose. We should remember here, that in our affairs, where government is divided into a thousand bureaux, and never centralized, the people...
...Saturday next the pennant emblematic of the inter-collegiate base-ball championship of America will be unfurled upon Holmes Field. The occasion will be noteworthy from the fact that Harvard has won this coveted trophy this year for the first time since the formation of the league. Years ago, when the Yale-Harvard series was the only series played to determine the question of the championship, the Harvard nine was often victorious over its New Haven rivals. Since the formation of the present league, however, our teams have met with a continual run of ill success that has been most...
...first day will be the mile tandem race by Palmer and Thompson; Hendee's endeavor to beat the world's record for one mile, and the twenty mile Pope cup race. On the second day will be run the twenty five mile L. A. W. championship of America. Part of the proceeds will be devoted to the payment of the expenses of the Yale crew...
...winning of the inter-collegiate championship was, in itself, honor enough for the lacrosse team, but when that achievement is supplemented by the capture of the Oelrichs cup, emblematic of the championship of America, the college may justly feel proud of its representatives in this sport. The work of the twelve during the past year has been faithful and hard,- its result has been shown in the series of almost uninterrupted victories won from strong teams. The lacrosse team of '82 held both the college championship and the Oelrichs cup; the '83 team held the collegiate championship only...