Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge has written an address of congratulation in Latin, to Harvard University, on the 250th anniversary of the latter's foundation. At a wine party recently held at Trinity College it was unanimously and hilariously decided that the Undergraduates of England ought to send greeting to the Undergraduates of America at the same time. The following address was at once drawn...
...would seem probable, that in America, with the historic facts to urge it on, the American people would cultivate oratory not only as a fine art, but as one of the most indispensable of forces among a free people. Such, unfortunately, is not the case. Indeed, it may be said that among those to whom the higher education of our people has been intrusted - our colleges, for instance - the very opposite course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates...
...preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed men of America and the Corporation are getting control of the Government, and will bye and bye rule the United States; that we are on the verge of an awful precipice and likely to fall over unless something be done at once. He proposes to have a tax upon property which shall increase in percentage...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Having occasion to examine recently the will of Lewis Morris, executed Nov. 19, 1760, I found in it the following clause: "It is my desire that my son Gouveneur Morris may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise...
...meeting of the Finance Club this evening at 7.30 in U. 13, The earlier portion of the evening will be occupied by a continuation of the discussion of the possibility of overproduction Messrs. Rich and Duane will than take up the discussion of Ely's Labor Movement in America...