Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of honorary members, not exceeding twelve at any one time, chosen by the Fellows because of eminence in literature, science, or philosophy. Some college papers seem to see in this Board of Regents the seed of an institution which shall be to America what the London University is to England, and one enraptured journal talks about a grand national University, "where all the sisterhood of colleges shall be united into one." Surely it would be a pleasant sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order to be examined. Or perhaps the examining board...
...feared that Dartmouth will have only Wesleyan to row against at New London...
...DEBTS AND LIABILITIES of Members of the Universities ARRANGED for them, or SETTLED. Every kind of Banking and Legal Business transacted. Established, 1854. London Bankers: Bank of England. - MR. ST. SWITHIN WILLIAMS, Solicitor and Private Banker, 136 High Street, Oxford...
...their hands, and to send them to the fountain-head for their rowing education. THIS IS ENGLAND. There is no mistake at all about this fact, and I lose all patience when I hear the talk about a "Harvard stroke" or an "American stroke." If a member of the London Rowing Club could be installed as coach to these new men, nothing would be wanting to insure their education in the best school; but this is undoubtedly impracticable, and English works on rowing must be resorted to. The men might be forced to select a coach from their own number...
...present captain, we happen to know, has given the subject of strokes a great deal of consideration. At Springfield he studied the stroke of the Yale men, and after the regatta at Saratoga he went to Philadelphia, saw both the English crews, and talked with the captain of the London Rowing Club Four. He therefore has definite opinions. A public statement of those opinions would certainly be read with the greatest interest by both graduates and undergraduates...