Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Municipal Art; and our opportunity in America...
...Saturday afternoon Prince Wolkonsky gave an address in Chickering Hall on Impressions of America...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky addressed a large audience last evening in Sanders Theatre on his impressions of America. These impressions, he said, were received from a limited observation. He, however, would freely acknowledge that he was at a disadvantage in this respect, and state his impressions, both favorable and unfavorable, in all sincerity...
...thing which is everywhere noticeable in America is the prominence of denominational feeling in religion. A man's acts and his spirituality are the test by which he should be judged; and while we do not want a universal creed, we do want a feeling of the brotherhood of all men. Socialists, whose very motto is the fraternity of man, are the most inlined to be uncharitable to those outside of their own class. It is for this reason that the cause of the nihilist is not to be commended, because he tries to level society by violence instead...
Lecture. Impressions of America as seen at Chicago. Prince Serge Wolkonsky, Commissioner to the World's Fair of the Russian Imperial Ministry of Education. Sanders Theatre...