Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Burke. Speech on Conciliation with America...
...fastest amateur runners in America at one-quarter mile are L. E. Myers, time, 48 3-5 sec.; H. S. Brooks, 50 1-5 sec.; J. A. Hodges, 51 sec.; Wm. Goodwin, Jr., 51 1-5 sec.; J. L. Jenkins, 51 1-2 sec.; and T. Murphy...
...subsequent pages. At times it is mostly "Snodkins, '85," a phrase terse, but so full of meaning! Or, again it is "Snodkins, '85," with, conspicuously near, a reference to "p. 199," or "p. 299." I look up the first reference, and find that it relates to the Chinese in America, from which circumstance I have to draw too obvious conclusions about my friend's nationality. The portraits of the great lecturer are almost without number, representing him in every conceivable position. They are all dated, I suppose to give individuality to the different ones. Each sketch, I conclude, represents...
...annual meeting of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of America, as the recently adopted name now stands, was held in New York on Saturday last...
...championship cup. The present championship emblem, at the expiration of five years, is to be awarded to the college which has won it the greatest number of times. The name of the association was changed from the Athletic Association of American Colleges, to the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of America. It was decided that not college men, but members of any reputable amateur athletic association, should act as judges at the finish. Dartmouth was dropped from the association, she having failed to send contestants to the field meetings for three successive years. H. S. Brooks, Yale's champion runner...