Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Chicago Weekly has selected an all-Western eleven chosen from the five teams which have played in Chicago during the season of '95, as follows: ends, Senter, Mich., and Harrison, Minn.; tackles, Henenger, Mich., and Villa, Mich.; guards, Hall, Mich., and Larson, Minn.; centre, Allen, C.; halfbacks, VanDusen and Potter, Northwestern; fullback, Bloomington, Mich...
...University of Chicago Weekly contains a statement which for a frank and plain-spoken exposition of the condition of athletics in at least one western college, rivals in interest the recent utterances of Harper's Weekly on the same subject. The item in question reads as follows...
...Casper Whitney reiterates his charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes...
...Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...
Professor Fullerton of Pennsylvania delivered the address of welcome. Regularly accredited delegates were presetn from the following nineteen colleges: Harvard, Brown, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Clark, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Radcliffe, Western Reserve, Wisconsin, and Columbian University...