Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Barrett Wendell has been at work all summer on his life of Cotton Mather, for the series of "Makers of America...
...Houghton, Mifflin and Co., are: A Life of Columbus, by Justin Winsor; the seventh of the eight parts of Professor Child's English and Scotch Border Ballads; a prose translation by Professor Norton of the Divina Commedia, and a new edition of the Vita Nuova; The Silva of America by Professor Charles S. Sargent, the first of a series of twelve quarto volumes...
Professor Shaler's recent contributions to periodical literature, include: "Man and Nature in America, first paper," in September Scribner's. "Scientific Expeditions from American Colleges," in October Chatauqua, and "The Uses and Limits of Academic Culture," in the August Atlantic. This last is especially interesting to Harvard men, as Professor Shaler bases his arguments largely on Harvard facts...
...Marcou, who will be instructor in French next year, is a son of Professor Marcou of Cambridge, who supports the theory that America is named not for Amerigo Vespucci but after a Central American tribe...
During the past year, besides the great Northfield conference, a similar gathering in Japan was markedly successful. More than, plans have been laid so that during the coming year at least five of these student gatherings will be held, viz: Northfield, Chautauqua and Lake Geneva in America; one in Scandanavia, and one in Japan...