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...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to portray the sweep of the history of all American peoples. His perspective on recent history is naturally close-up and highly personal, but the book is admirable and solidly readable nonetheless...
Hardly anybody gets killed at lacrosse any more. The sport, Canada's official national game, is played also at Oxford, Cambridge and 90 U.S. colleges (mostly in the East) including girls' schools, notably Smith College. The basic principles have changed little: using netted sticks to carry or pass a small hard-rubber ball, two ten-man teams attempt to shoot it into the opposing goal; as in soccer, only the goalkeeper may take the ball in his hands. Nowadays the players wear helmets, masks, pads and gloves, and it is no longer good form (or legal) to bash...
...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Samuel Eliot Morison. 1,150 pages. Oxford...
...Oxford History of the United States, a two-volume survey of the U.S. from 1783 to 1917, melts detectably into this volume. There are recognizable other debts to By Land and by Sea, a 1953 collection of essays, to Admiral of the Ocean Sea, his definitive and immensely readable life of Columbus published in 1942, and to his exemplary 15-volume History of U.S. Naval Operations in World...
...Canada, such growth presents some tough problems. "We are having to expand before we have had a chance to develop our own true excellence-our Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard," notes Canadian Social Scientist Bernard Ostry. Despite good salaries (the median full professor's pay is $14,163), there are many staff vacancies. Three Canadian college presidents recently toured five U.S. campuses trying to lure graduate students from Canada back home to teach...