Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...list of events contested for the Mott Haven cup. For a number of years Harvard has been consistent in her advocacy of this reform, and for some time the sentiment has been becoming general among the larger colleges against the tug-of-war. Last year Yale, Princeton and Amherst voted with Harvard to drop by event from the program, but the small colleges and Columbia defeated the motion. However, it was evident from last year's vote that the change is inevitable. The Yale News speaking editorially on Thursday of this week on the subject says: "As the sentiments...
Considerable agitation is reported to have begun among the Amherst students against compulsory attendance at morning prayers and at Church twice on Sunday...
...will of the late James Howard provides that, after deducting numerous bequests to relatives, the residue of the estate is to accumulate until it shall reach $40,000, when $10,000 each is to be given Yale, Amherst, Dartmouth and the Minnesota State University, to found four scholarships, which are to bear the names, respectively, of Mr. Howard's father, mother and two brothers...
...where Harvard was supposed to be strong, she got only a second place. She will enter as usual some strong men this year, but they will have against them last year's champions; for Wright of Yale, who won the half-mile in 1.59 1-5, and Shattuck of Amherst, who took the 440 in 49 1-2 seconds, will both be on hand again this year. Turner of Princeton, and Vosburgh of Columbia, who won respectively second and third places in the half-mile, are both formidable men again for that distance. Vosburgh has a record...
...Yale, Amherst, Williams, Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard will be represented at the B. A. A. games on February...