Word: racing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Cambridge University won the sixty-fourth annual boat race with Oxford last Saturday on the Thames by 4 1-2 lengths. The make-up of the Cambridge crew was practically the same as when it defeated the University crew last fall by two lengths over the same course of 4 1-4 miles. The time on Saturday...
President Eliot will speak at Cornell University, at the invitation of the Cornell chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, on May 29. He will be the guest of Cornell University for several days and will attend the Harvard-Cornell boat race on Lake Cayuga...
...best definition of civilization, said Mr. Bryan, is the harmonious development of the human race physically, mentally and morally, and for this reason it was essential that every individual train himself in all of these qualities. No combination of all of these qualities is so well shown as in the character of Thomas Jefferson, the greatest constructive statesman in history, who, in comparison with Alexander Hamilton, shows the most striking cast of a conscientious politician who realized and had faith in the strength and wisdom of the people. This faith in our people and in our democratic form of government...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Cross Country Association, held in the Fith Avenue Hotel, it was voted to allow nine men to start in the race, the first six finishing to count, not the first four as formerly. It was also voted to hold the intercollegiate meet next year at Princeton. Havron, of Princeeon, was appointed manager of the next meet, with the track team managers of Columbia and Pennsylvania as assistant managers...
...education the ideas of the negro have greatly changed. Instead of regarding manual labor as degrading, the educated negro now considers it distinctly honorable. There is a great difference between working and being worked--the one means civilization, the other servitude. The same is true with reference to the race as to the individual. Any race which is uneducated is apt to yield to the temptation of going from one extreme to another. The Anglo-Saxon race should then not judge the black race too severely, but should compare its progress with that of nations longer civilized. It would then...