Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rhode Island, and Connecticut, was held in University Hall on Saturday to discuss the method of selecting American students to be given the scholarships at Oxford University established by the Cecil Rhodes bequest. The meeting was held at the invitation of Dr. G. W. Parkin of Toronto, representative in America of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Those present included representatives from the universities, colleges, and secondary schools of the three states mentioned. The principal topic under discussion was the question of whether the scholarships should be awarded only to college graduates or should also include those who have completed the work...
Professor F. N. Robinson of the English Department, left Cambridge yesterday for Washington, D. C., where he will deliver a course of lectures on "Middle Irish Literature," at the Catholic University of America. Professor Robinson will return at the close of the mid-year period...
...University has recently received from Mr. T. S. Watson '99, as a gift from the estate of his father, the late Robert Clifford Watson '69, the bow of the six-oared shell "Harvard," the first shell of its kind to be built in America. The "Harvard" was used by the University crews of 1858, 1859 and 1860, in the first of which President Eliot '53, then a tutor in Harvard College, rowed fourth oar, and Professor A. Agassiz...
...eighth annual convention of the Federation of Graduate Clubs of America was held at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, December 26 and 27. Representatives were present from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, New York University, Barnard, Radcliffe, University of The South, Amherst, University of Georgia, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, Columbian University, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, University of Texas, University of Chicago, Teachers College, and University of Berlin. The sessions of the convention were taken up with the reading of papers followed by a general discussion by the delegates in attendance. Miss Henrietta E. McIntyre of Radcliffe College...
...Modern Language Association of America held its twentieth annual meeting at Baltimore on December 29, 30 and 31. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, president of the Association, delivered the principal address, and papers were read by Professor E. S. Sheldon '72 and C. F. Brown...