Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chaillu then told shortly the story of the Norseman visitation to America with their huge vessels of sixty-two benches, sometimes four hundred and eighty feet in length...
Philistine, Barbarian and Populist, were catch words with Matthew Arnold. The upper class in England he calls the barbarian class. He has said that we have no upper class in America, and therefore have no barbarians. To him the American citizens are chiefly Philistines, or people of the middle class, with very few Populists. He has, however, discovered that our Philistines are livelier than those of England...
This afternoon there will be held in New York a meeting of the American College Republican League, at which delegates from almost all the larger colleges of America will be present. The Harvard delegate is L. W. Mott '96, who went on to New York last night...
...Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice," he thought, was not the best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work...
...forty-ninth annual convention of the Zeta Psi fraternity of North America is in session now in Toronto, Ontario. The colleges represented are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, University of California, University of City of New York, Columbia, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Williams, Rutgers, Colby, Tufts, Lafayette, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Bowdoin, Stanford, University of Virginia, Cass School of Sciences, University of North Carolina, and McGill University of Montreal...