Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entered for the bicycle races this afternoon are among the fastest riders in America, and as the track is the best of condition some of the existing records surely ought to be broken. Some of the best men who will ride are W. F. Murphy, N. Y. A. C., the 2 mile American champion; Hoyland Smith, N. Y. A. C., the 1-2 mile American safety champion; A. B. Rich, N. Y. A. C., holder of the 5 mile world's record; A. A. Zimmerman, N. Y. A. C., who has twice beaten W. W. Windle, who holds the world...
Last evening in Sever 5 Mr. C. H. C. Wright '91 read his Bowdoing Prize Dissertation on "The Influence of Contemporary French Literature upon that of England and America during the past Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism...
...Historical writing alone the French have failed to influence corresponding work in England and America. The modern philosophical treatment of customs and institutions has not flourished in France until comparatively lately...
...French literary history has always been important. If English-speaking nations have been influenced at all by the French, we might therefore suppose the drama to be an important point of contact. The answer is both yes and no. The number of French plays reproduced in England and America has indeed been prodigious, but so boldly have we copied that a mere translation or a slight recasting of the plays has been thought sufficient. The result has been plagiarism, not a gradual and subtle improvement...
Kozaki is twenty-seven years old. He received his early collegiate training at Dashisha College, the largest Christian college in Japn. After graduating there in 1881, he entered the Divinity School of the same institution and in 1884 received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Coming to America, he spent three years at the Pacific Theological seminary in California. After his graduation there in 1887 he spent three years in private study and last fall came to Harvard...