Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard alike-have accepted such pecuniary advantages. But in other cases it has included the acceptance of money for playing particular games, the acceptance of a salary for teaching athletics, and the practice of athletics for a livelihood. According to the invariable practice of amateur organizations in England and America, any one of the three acts last named debars the person concerned from further participation in amateur sports...
Notice is also given that M. Loubat, member of the New York Historical society, has founded a prize of six hundred dollars to be given every third year for the best work printed concerning the history, geography, archaeology, ethnography, philology, and numismatics of North America. The detailed conditions of the prize may be learned by a reference to the notice posted in University...
January 20-"The Ice Age in North America and the Antiquity of Man," Professor G. Frederic Wright, L. L. D. of Oberlin college, Ohio...
...expense. The average expenses of a student in a New England college are just now about double the average yearly wages of a workingman. The gulf between the rich and the poor is considerably widening in America, and if this continues it will soon be impossible for the poor man's son to gain a college education in any other character than that of a "subsidized embryo preacher...
...right away because on February 15th, the Boston Athletic association would hold a handicap indoor meeting open to all amateurs, which it is hoped a large number of Harvard men will enter. Moreover, it may happen that the New York Athletic union may transfer its amateur indoor championship of America to Boston, on account of the better accommodations here. There is every reason why Harvard should work especially hard to win the cup this year. The old cup was won eight out of fourteen times by Harvard and as the new cup is to be competed for the first time...