Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wyndham Towers," is the latest and undoubtedly the best work of Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Competent critics have declared it the best poem that America has produced for many years. The most striking characteristic of this work is the beauty of the diction, especially in the lines descriptive of the gradual decay of the old castle and of the break of day. The author never lacks for picturesque phrases. The tale is placed in the Elizabethan are and, as hinted in the preface, the method of the author is obviously influenced by his study of the poets and dramatists...
...generous gift of Mr. Jacob Schiff will be, we hope, the first step toward the formation of such a valuable museum in the university that Harvard may become a centre in America for research in the Semitic language and history. With the funds now promised a collection can be made of casts from relics in other museums, and these will serve for study until the university is rich enough to undertake excavations on her own account. It is here that the greater field for advancement is open for original work. There will be ample opportunity among the buried ruins which...
Professor S. W. Burnham, chief of the eclipse expedition sent from the Lick observatory to South America has announced that the observation of the eclipse of the sun December 22 was entirely successful and that the expedition is now on its way home...
...music. Without an American church in Berlin, many of the Americans residing in that city are practically destitute of a religious home. A helpful organization has already existed for several years, but the rooms it occupies are inadequate and a suitable house can be built only by help from America. The testimony is unanimous that those who have the work in charge are helpful to young people studying in Berlin...
Probably the greatest improvement has taken place in the buildings and grounds which are donstdered by many as the finest college grounds in America. Since the year 1878, one hundred and sixty five acres have been added to the campus, making in all two hundred and twenty acres. Nine new buildings have been added: Edwards, University, and Murray Halls, the new President's house, Marquand chapel, the Biological laboratory, the Art museum, the Magnetic observatory, and the dynamo building. Enlargements have been made upon the School of Science and Nassua Hall, and four new buildings are to be built...