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...Manhattan field on Oct. 5, not only by the Yale undergraduates, but by all the athleticpublic, believing that College games of this nature present the best and purest form of amateur sport. Yale is doing everything to make the meeting worthy of an international name; one to which the Englishmen will look back with pleasure. In this the college has had the firm support of the alumni, and there is no doubt that the event will be as brilliant from a social, as from an athletic point of view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale vs. Cambridge. | 9/25/1895 | See Source »

...Englishmen are probably stronger in the mile. Morgan of Yale bested Coolidge of Harvard in 4 min. 37 sec., but both lost their places in the intercollegiate, which was won in 3 min. 23 2/5 sec., while W. H. Greenhow of Oxford defeated Morgan by eighty yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Probable Results of International Games. | 6/19/1895 | See Source »

...feared at Yale that the invitation sent by the University of Pennsylvania to meet the English team has been slighted. The cablegram inviting Yale to meet the Englishmen is expected here hourly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHALLENGE FROM ENGLAND. | 6/7/1895 | See Source »

...third rate artists. Today no pictures are so popular as those of the old masters; and the highest price ever brought at Christian's was for a Sir Joshua. In landscape painting we look back from the present school to Corot and Daubigny, and from them to the Englishmen, Bennington and Constable. These painters were the leaders in the great movement against Romanticism and Classicism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on English Art. | 2/28/1895 | See Source »

...constitutes the special charm and power of the effect I am calling attention to, and it is for this that the Celt's sensibility gives him a peculiar aptitude. But Europe tends constantly to become more and more one community, and we tend to become Europeans instead of merely Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, so whatever aptitude or felicity one people imparts into spiritual work, gets imitated by the others, and thus tends to become the common property of all. Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural magic I am speaking of, is sure, nowadays, if it appears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1894 | See Source »

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