Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...About one hundred Harvard students accompanied the team to New Haven, where they received excellent treatment. The game was played according to modified Rugby rules, with fifteen men on a side and was the most interesting game, on account of Harvard's fine playing, that had been seen in America up to that time. The first Harvard-Yale Freshman football game was played in the following year on Boston Common, when Harvard won by two goals to nine...
...Presidents of Harvard, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, the University of Chicago, and the University of California have issued invitations to the leading universities of America for a conference to be held in Washington in February, 1900, for the consideration of problems connected with graduate work. The conference has been prompted, in the words of the invitation, "by a desire to secure in foreign universities, where it is not already given, such credit as is legitimately due to the advanced work done in our own universities of high standing, and to protect the dignity of our Doctor's degrees. . . . There is reason...
...museum. There will be a series of photographs of the rooms and specimen cases, and a series of bromide enlargements showing the explorations in the field. The latter group, which will show the explorations as they are conducted, will cover the excavations of the ruins of Yucatan and Central America and the mounds and burial places in portions of the United States and Central America...
...regular winter meeting of candidates for the track team was held in Upper Massachusetts last night. Captain Rice announced that it is almost sure that Oxford and Cambridge will send a team to America this year, although the date for the meet has not been decided upon. The dual games with Yale will probably be held during the first week in May and the intercollegiate games two weeks later. Mr. Lathrop, in speaking of Harvard's past success in track athletics, said that in the last fifteen years Harvard has won seven intercollegiate championships, has beaten Yale in five dual...
...known for some time, but right seems to be on the side of the Boers. At least the sight of a nation leaving all and going in a body to the front to fight for their homes ought to inspire the admiration of a republic like America and compel it to suspend its judgment...