Word: america
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WINSOR delivered his lecture on "The Earliest Maps of America," before the Appalachian Mountain Club, last Wednesday evening...
...professional doings of the well-known amateur walkers, F. H. Armstrong and F. Mott, they have been expelled from their respective clubs, and are no longer recognized as amateurs. W. O'Keefe and J. H. Noonen, both rather fast walkers, are also expelled. Armstrong was the amateur champion of America, and had a mile record of 6.44, if memory serves us, and Mott could also do his mile close to seven minutes. Their loss is a serious one to the amateur athletic interest of the country...
...amateur as well as professional nines, including the college teams of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. The third team will be a professional one under Daft, and will come over late in September. The play of the Philadelphians against the Australians last October has aroused quite a desire to visit America among the English clubs...
...regatta on the Passaic was the best ever held in America" (Times); "in fact, there never was a better managed regatta on these waters" (Herald); "though the crowd was great, - about forty thousand according to estimate, - not a disorderly person was seen, and the races started promptly on time" (Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen...
...been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property...