Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the head of new business applications for admission to the Association were received from Boston College, Pennsylvania State College, Haverford College, and Leland Stanford University of California, and were accepted. Further, Article IX of the Constitution was amended to allow the date of the bicycle races to be fixed by the executive committee. Hereafter the best performance in a field event during the two afternoons shall win the event, and every man competing for the first time must furnish a certificate signed by three members of the faculty of his college to the effect that he has attended studies...
There are now ten college daily papers in the United States. These are at Harvard, Yale, U. of Penn., U. of Wisconsin, Correll, Princeton, U. of Michigan, Brown, Leland Stanford University, and Tulane University, New Orleans...
...Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift of a million dollars to Columbia that institution received almost twice as much at a single time as all Harvard's gifts and bequests for the last three years amount to. The enormous benefactions by single individuals in recent years to Leland Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which in material resources, so necessary to a great university's welfare, and in attendance are no distant rivals of the New England universities built up through long years of toil and self-sacrifice...
...placed on file in the front room of its offices all the college dailies, a number of the college periodicals and several non-collegiate publications. Among them are the Yale News, Yale Alumni Weekly, Daily Princetonian, The Pennsylvanian, Cornell Sun, Brown Herald, The Berkeleyan, The Palo Alto of Leland Stanford University, The Phillipian, The Exonian, The New York Times, The Nation, Harper's Weekly, The Amateur Athlete, The Illustrated American, Truth and Outing. There are also to be had at this office the current numbers of many college weeklies and monthlies and several other non-collegiate publications. These files...
...work of the football men yesterday morning was the last forenoon practice for the year. The backs spent most of the time punting against the wind. Kennedy L. S., formerly fullback on the Leland Stanford eleven came out for the first time. He showed the lack of practice, his punting being slow and unsteady. The work of the morning was of the usual elementary nature...