Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America held its thirty-fourth annual meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Saturday. T. G. Rockwell of Cornell presided, and J. D. Leland '09 represented the University...
...York, N.Y., February 26, 1909.--At a meeting of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America, held in New York tonight, the executive committee recommended that the intercollegiate track meet be held in Cambridge; and that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bowdoin and the University of Virginia be admitted to membership. These recommendations will go before the Convention tomorrow for final approval...
After being graduated from the University in 1872, Mr. Tower studied for four years in Europe and America, being admitted to the bar in 1878. From 1882 to 1887 he resided in Duluth and held the offices of president of the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad, and managing director of the Minnesota Iron Company...
After being graduated from the University in 1897, Mr. MacKaye spent three years in Europe, studying at the University of Leipzig and travelling in various parts of the continent. After returning to America he taught for four years in a private school in New York City. Since then he has devoted himself chiefly to dramatic writing, his most widely known works being "The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer," "Fenris, the Wolf," "Sappho and Phaon," "Jeanne d'Arc," and "Mater," the last three of which have been produced in New York during the past few years. Mr. MacKaye has also lectured...
...last visit to America he informed the Librarian of the University that he would furnish the funds for all books purchased by the Library on the subject of Siam. It is to carry out this idea after his death that the friends of Professor Strobel have organized the fund...