Word: astley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...merely to the English colonists but it is now proposed to admit America. The action is taken in view of the splendid showing that our athletes made abroad last summer and also of our games against Lord Hawk's team of cricketers. Owing to this last proposal Mr. J. Astley Cooper, who is one of the originators of the scheme, has written a letter to the Harvard Boat Club, from which an extract follows...
...ASTLEY COOPER.The Australians and the people of South Africa have already sent their approval of the scheme, and now America's answer is looked for. The idea is to have the events competed for by representatives only of the English speaking race but of the entire race. It is proposed that the prizes should be not money but some trophy from the nation or the race to the man, which he would ever after value and which might form an ornament to his country. The Prince of Wales has been interested in the proposed scheme and shortly the whole matter...
Among those present Saturday were noticed: Dr. Francis M. Weld, William E. Worthen, W. A. Purrington, J. E. Carpenter, Edward King, T. Frank Brownell, George H. Adams, James T. Kilbreth, Fred Cromwell, A. H. Holmes, James W. Hawes, E. D. Hawkins, and F. Astley Atkins...