Word: america
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visit of the Columbia crew to England seems to have awakened quite a strong desire to have in America some such annual regatta of college oarsmen as that at Henley. Captain Bancroft has received the following letter on this subject from the Secretary of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
Lacrosse belongs strictly to America, and has a far better claim to be called the national game than either foot-ball or base-ball. It was played originally by the Indians, although for some time...
...Fresh man match of 1878. But her present crew has never been beaten. They defeated Yale and Columbia in 1877, and Yale in 1878, and are acknowledged by all judges of rowing to be one of the best collegiate crews ever seen in America. The history of the crew is unparalleled in the annals of University oarsmen. Bancroft rowed in the Freshman crew of 1875, Bancroft and Jacobs in the University crew of 1876 and in the match with Yale; seven of the eight were in the Harvard-Yale match of 1877, and all eight in this year's race...
...mile track, and a cold windy day, while the fastest professional time in the world is 48 1/4 sec., the fastest English amateur time 50 2/5 sec., and the fastest American amateur time 52 1/5 sec. This latter was made July 4, 1878, on the best track in America, warm day, no wind, and in a race between the fastest two men we have at this distance, the second man being but 1/5 second behind. Neither of these men could, last Saturday, on an eighth of a mile track, with cold weather and raw wind, have beaten...
...causes of the immense progress at Oxford in recent as compared with former years has been the operation of the University, Tests Abolition Act. In America many are still accustomed to think of Oxford as a university where everybody is obliged to sign the Thirty-nine Articles and conform with the established church, but such is not now the fact. This act abolished subscription to any and all formularies of faith as a condition of admission, or taking lay degree and lay academical or collegiate offices...