Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Some conditions of Intellectual Life in America." Professor C. E. Norton of the college...
...great merit is the practical system of charities and education of the poorer classes which he has established and successfully built up. Chicago, Philadelphia and numerous other cities have now Ethical Culture Societies which are vying with the New York society in the work they do. No man in America, it is safe to say, is more fitted to lecture on "Ethics and Culture" than Professor Adler and we strongly urge all serious men to take this opportunity of hearing him. He is an excellent speaker and the charm of his delivery helps impress the excellent thoughts he gives utterance...
...Some Conditions of Intellectual Life in America." Professor C. E. Norton of the college...
...good example of English ignorance of the United States is found in a presentation copy of a recently published book on "Arithmetical Tables" which has been received at Cornell University from the firm of Ralfe Brothers, London. It says: "The dollar of the United States of America has four values in different places: In Georgia and South Carolina, 4s. 6d.; in New England and Virginia, 6s. 0d.; in Delaware, Md., New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 7s. 6d.; in New York and North Carolina...
...military service. This generally comes between leaving school and going to the University. The young fellow is left to his own resources for the first time. The freedom which he enjoys is much greater than that accorded to the students even in our most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University...