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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Roscoe Conkling Bruce '02, of Indianapolis, prepared at Exeter where he was a member of the Golden Branch Debating Society, the oldest debating organization in America. While at Exeter he was an editor of the Literary Monthly and assistant business manager of the Exonian. He was the winner of the Pasteur Medal last year...
...taught for twenty years. Senator Lodge and Governor Wolcott were among his pupils. He gave up his work as a teacher in 1871, and retired to his home in Cambridge, where he had been living up to the time of his death. Mr. Dixwell was one of Harvard's oldest graduates...
...oldest college in the world is Mohammand College at Cairo which was 1000 years old when Oxford was founded. It has 11,000 students...
...result was from one point of view, it was, for the spectator, the finest football game ever played. Under ideal conditions of weather and grounds with the attendance of the largest crowd ever assembled on Soldiers Field or on any football field, the elevens of the two oldest and best universities in the country, in perfect physical condition, struggled two hours for the collegiate championship, and finally each gave up, without victory and yet unbeaten. The Harvard eleven had fought their way up to Yale's goal-line, and almost where they had been baffled two years before, again could...
...soon have another college, Westminster, which it is hoped may be opened Oct. 18. It is founded by the Presbyterians of England. The buildings cost about $165,000. It is practically a century since a new college was founded at Cambridge, the latest being Downing, established in 1800. The oldest college is Peter's house, which dates back to 1257. Oxford goes back a little farther, University College having been established...