Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well practiced in the six-man style of play if the team makes its proposed trip to Canada during the Christmas vacation. At the plans now stand at Yale, the hockey team will make the longest trip yet undertaken by an American college seven to play games in Montreal and Toronto with McGill and Toronto universities...
...Leacock, besides being renowned for his work done as Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, is better known by his humorous books, of which he has written six, among them being "Literary Lapses," and "Sunshine Sketches...
...year 1874 is a memorable, one, for in it occurred the event which led directly to the establishment of the present type of intercollegiate football. This event was an invasion of the United States by the Rugby football fifteen of McGill University of Montreal. The ambitious young Canadians played only one game at their style of play, but that was at Harvard. The complex, brilliant features of Rugby instantly captured the imagination, and Harvard abandoned its curious code and adopted that of the visitors...
Stephen Leacock will be the second of the November speakers at the Union, coming on the 28th. Mr. Leacock is Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, but is undoubtedly better known for his humorous books, among them being "Behind the Beyond" and "Nonsense Novels...
...list commences with the name of George Williamson '05, of Montreal, Canada, who as a lieutenant in the second battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Riding Regiment, was so badly wounded during the opening engagements of the war, that he died of his injuries in a hospital on Nov. 4, 1914. He is believed to have been the first graduate of any American college to have been killed during the World...