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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every four years there should be held in London an "English Festival," which should consist of contests in track events, cricket and rowing. These contests were at first to be open merely to the English colonists but it is now proposed to admit America. The action is taken in view of the splendid showing that our athletes made abroad last summer and also of our games against Lord Hawk's team of cricketers. Owing to this last proposal Mr. J. Astley Cooper, who is one of the originators of the scheme, has written a letter to the Harvard Boat Club...
...which disclosed to the court that he was an insincere man and not capable of following out to advantage the discoveries he had made. This is the reason why he was not treated with more consideration by Ferdinand and Isabella. Speaking of his weaknesses Dr. Winsor says: "When we view the character of Columbus in its influence upon the minds of men, we find some strange anomolies. Before his passion was tainted with the ambition of wealth, and its consequence, and while he was urging the acceptance of his views for their own sake, it is evident that he impressed...
...second bulletin of the new Chicago University has lately been issued, explaining the courses and giving the general college regulations. There are to be four colleges: (1) the College of Liberal Arts and (2) the College of Literature, arranged with a view to the degree B. A.; (3) the College of Science and (4) the College of Practical Arts, arranged with a view to the degree B. S. The year is to be divided into four quarters, beginning respectively on the first day of October, January, April and July, and continuing 12 weeks each, thus leaving one week between each...
Representatives from Princeton and Harvard met Saturday, Dec. 19, at New York with a view to the re-establishment of athletic relations between the two Universities. The meeting was altogether Larmonious and the general outline of an arrangement for games of base ball and foot ball was agreed upon, the details to be perfected and announced hereafter...
Tests were made last Saturday of the acoustic qualities of Upper Mass., with a view to a better arrangement of seats...