Word: european
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...both interests are active, with the majority in favor of base-ball. The Freshman class is especially fortunate in possessing "many men of many minds," and has proved a flourishing training-school for almost every arena where the honor of Harvard is at stake. It seems probable that the European trip of the two most prominent base-ball clubs in the country will be a new era in the history of the game. Before long novelty-loving Americans will patronize cricket, a game of much more real enjoyment than they now are willing to acknowledge. The advantages of the Rugby...
...table unites persons much more than meeting in any other way. As an example of this plan, we have the Commons of the English Universities. Their Commons are certainly successful, and, having the advantage of their experience, we might improve upon them; for instance, by the adoption of the "European" system of payment, which would enable each student to suit his living to his means. Though one may be moved at first to cry out with horror against this innovation, are there not, on the whole, more reasons for than against...
...event in the outside world could more nearly affect our community than the terrible ocean disaster just reported from the other side, where the survivors from the "Ville du Havre" have arrived to tell their sad story. European travel has become of late so common that the first-class steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns...
...single specimen, with which to illustrate a lecture, possessed by the Institution, which now offers better advantages to students, both in instruction and in specimens, than any Museum in Europe, and that it afforded him great pleasure to announce this fact in the presence of a distinguished European naturalist...
...contradiction to President Eliot's statement that the system "is characteristic of American Colleges as distinguished from European Universities," Dr. McCosh says...