Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This task which has been offered to the American school will doubtless require the labor of many years. This is not to be regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
...publish in our columns this morning a communication from William Cranston Lawton which deserves careful perusal. Up to this time, as will be seen America has contributed little or nothing to the furtherance of archaeological research in Greece, and has in fact in this respect no enviable record. Now, however, preparations are making for the excavation of Delphi and its surroundings under the direction of American scholars and these excavations, if successful, will go far toward proving America's claim to scholarly recognition. No more fruitful field certainly could have been chosen for the initial work than the site...
...Harvard before I came here, and I cannot say that they have changed very materially. We editors, you know, keep our eyes on the whole world, and we know what is going on at all the great colleges and universities, whether they are in Heidelberg, Germany, or in Cambridge, America. I have walked about the college grounds a good deal during my visit here, and I have seen many fine fellows among the students here. I have met a number of professor, too, and they are a set of cultivated and intelligent...
...Pacific coast; 8th, Englewood, N. J., Field club; 15th, Springfield tennis company; 2nd, Meadow club of Southhampton, championship of Long Island; 29th, Wright and Ditson's annual lawn tennis tournament, Newcastle, N. H.; August 5th, Mass. Sporting club Invitation; 12th, Narragansett lawn tennis club; 21st, championship singles of America, Newport, R. I.; September 2d, Lenox Lawn tennis club; 9th, Rochester tennis club; 16th, Washington, Southern championship; October 6th, Inter-collegiate lawn tennis championship...
...unanimosly elected captian for the rest of the year. Mr. Garrett was captain of the eleven at Haverford college in '86, where he graduated the same year He is a member of the Germantown Cricket club, and two or three years since, in a match between Germantown and Young America, when the former made the largest one-inning score yet made in this country, 418, he went in first with G. S.Patterson and made 30 run before losing his wicket. He is a good all-round cricketer...