Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to lessen the expenses of the teams, the league was divided geographically into Northern, Central and Southern sections, to hold their preliminary bouts at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, respectively. The Northern division consists of Harvard, Yale, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Central, of Princeton, West Point, and Columbia, and the Southern, of Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis. By this new scheme the two teams in each division making the best score in the preliminaries will compete in the semifinals of New York on March 27. The two teams making the lowest score will then be eliminated...
...America. Of the 43 men of the whole world who are pre-eminent in the 20 major branches of learning, we name only three who are Americans: Professor Richards, of Harvard, in chemistry; Professor Michaelson, of the University of Chicago, in Physics, and Henry C. Lea, of Philadelphia, in history. No American University possesses one teacher whose position is one of undisputed mastery. The world balance of trade is in favor of America by 444 millions; our balance in brains is minus by 100 per cent...
...time when college examinations are over, and a regular series of trials will be held, so that every man will have a chance to show what he can do. The trials will be held on Saturday, June, 6, in Chicago for western athletes and in either New York, or Philadelphia for the east. Trials will be held in all events except the Marathon run and the ten-mile walk, for which the men will be picked by the committee. Three or five, men will be entered in each event, according to the resources available for expenses...
...Church, Boston, will give a brief address. The meeting will close with a short business session, and the reading and discussion of reports. Mr. Faulkner was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883, and from the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, in 1894. After occupying posts in Baltimore and Philadelphia, he came to Boston, and has been rector of St. Paul's Church since...
...problems of the American com- monwealth are today peculiarly those of the City. The issues that interest and agitate the public are increasingly local and the battle-grounds that have peculiar significance are those of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other great centres of population...