Word: america
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stand with relation to the intellectual supply of the world, and on which side is the balance of trade in brains, in favor of Europe or America? Where does the student go who wishes to be a master in physics, in zoology, in psychology, or any other field of learning? Not to any University in America. The greatest scholars of the world today are found in German, France, and England, not in America. Of the 43 men of the whole world who are pre-eminent in the 20 major branches of learning, we name only three who are Americans: Professor...
...Olympic games, open to amateur athletes from all over the world, will be held in London beginning July 13, 1908. Arrangements are being made by the American Athletic Union to gather a first-class team to represent America, in the expectation of retaining the championship which was won for this country in 1906. The American committee is now engaged in raising a fund for the expenses of the team and hopes to secure $50,000 for this purpose...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "The Rise of American Nationality," by K. C. Babcock '95; "The Hook," by L. J. Bridgman '81; "The Jeffersonian System," by E. Channing '78; "Under the Laurel," by F. Crowninshield '60; "Provincial America," by E. B. Greene '90; "Slavery and Abolition," by A. B. Hart '80; "The Appeal to Arms," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "Edgar Allan Poe," by J. A. Macy '99; "Greece and the Aegean Islands," by P. S. Marden L.'98; "Mornings in the College Chapel," by F. G. Peabody '69; "A Flight to Eden...
...which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all the occasions worthy of notice in connection with this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within a few months of his arrival--he little thought of what a fine monument he was building for himself. And best of all it is a living, growing monument, which will be greater 300 years from today than it is now. John Harvard...
...LECTURE. "John Harvard in America." Andrew McF. Davis, A.M. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...