Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Barrett Wendell will write the volume on "Cotton Maker," in the series of "Makers of America" to be published by Dodd, Mead...
There seems to be no chance that an English cricket eleven will come to America this year...
Congressman W. C. P. Brechinridge continues the tariff discussion. Madame Adam sketches "Society in Paris" in a very gossipy and fashionable newspaper style. O. B. Bunce argues effectively that the reading public in America is much smaller than that of England. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr pleads for more restraint and modesty in our conversation that it may be better suited virginibus puerisque...
...article on Classical Studies in America in a recent number of the Classical Review, Professor John H. Wright of Harvard acknowledges that the attention of classical scholars in this country is almost entirely devoted to the scientific side of language. They have a marked interest for points of grammar or of archaeology to the detriment of the literary study of Greek and Latin. In their annotated editions of authors they moreover confine themselves largely to servile imitation of German workers...
...This explains why lovers of Greek and Latin even yet invariably turn to the scientific side of the language, why foreign poets, critics, essayists and novelists know so much more about the classics than American writers, and why William Cranston Lawton is virtually the only literary Greek scholar in America today...