Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some of the specimens. But unless he were a connoisseur he would hardly realize that this was one of the two finest collections of the kind in America, the other being at Yale. The European collections which surpass the Harvard one are those at the British Museum, at Vienna, and at Paris. All of these collections, however, have been aided by subsidies from the government. The Harvard collection has the virtue of being practically the work...
...intercollegiate races dragged along until 1881, when the Cornell four oared crew went abroad, gave the London four a great tussle, and were said to have been sold out in Vienna a quarter of a mile ahead in the race. Honors were even again in the intercollegiate races until the crew of '85 defeated Pennsylvania for the Childs cup, which Cornell won finally last year, but which she may put up again Since then not a race has been lost against all comers, and last year Cornell appeared in an eighth with what has been called phenomenal success...