Word: american
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES. By William Raimond Baird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott...
THIS work is complete. It is useful as a reference book, and even interesting reading. Harvard has not lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters...
PROFESSOR PUTNAM is giving a series of lectures on American Archaeology before the Natural History Society...
...cigarettes manufactured by Wm. S. Kimball & Co., of that city. We should explain, perhaps, that all tobacco sold in France up to this time has been manufactured by the government. Of late, the demand for other makes has arisen, and the government, to meet it, allowed English and American manufacturers to enter goods for competitive test with a view to the adoption of the best. The fact that Wm. S. Kimball & Co have come out far ahead of all other manufacturers in both countries is unmistakable proof that their goods are the best the world produce. Their tobacco and cigarettes...
...each man performs all that is expected of him, the game would be far more injurious in its effects than the writer thinks it is now. As to its being "a rude and brutal" game, it certainly is a rough game, but practice at lawn tennis will not raise American physique, now so much decried, up to the English standard. But before criticising any further the expression "brutal," we must remember that Yale was one of the contestants in the game mentioned; and if that team played in its usual style, the expression is perhaps allowable...