Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Evening Journal, July 3, 1889. (b) Pan Amerian Congress, N. Y. Mail in P. O. October 5, 1889. (c) Samoan settlement-Nation, June 20, 1889. (b) Behring Sea fishery question-Boston Morning Journal, August 10. (2) his domestic policy as exemplified by (a) territorial appointments-Baltimore American in P. O. March 16, 1889; lowa State Register in P. O. March 30, 1889. (b) Indian question-Phil. Ledger in P. O. March 30; New York Tribune in P. O. July 20. (c) pension question-Boston Advertiser, August 31; Boston Journal, September 12; New York Mail in P. O. September...
...That the president has not violated the Civil Service Policy is shown by (a) certain appointments, especially those of civil service commissioners-Philadelphia Press in P. O. May 18; American, May 11; Boston Morning Journal, July 5. (b) Refusal to remove incumbents-New York World in P. O. March 23, New Orleans Times in P. O. March 23. (c) Many cases to which the reform is not applicable.- Rochester Democrat in P. O. August 10, Omaha Bee in P. O. Oct. 12; Independent Journal in P. O., July 20. (d) fovorable criticism-New York Press...
...glad to give credit when and where it is due. It is undeniable that there are mistakes made among us-some of them sadly to be deplored-but we believe that the unprejudiced intelligent opinion of the country places our university where she belongs at the head of American educational institutions. The best of advantages and methods are our own, and Harvard has always taken first rank for her freedom and her breadth. Despite the sneers of croakers and wisacres, she is today as she has been ever, the mother of cultured manly sons...
...Brown, '90, has made 1001 runs in all this year, which is a record in American cricket. He played forty innings, three not outs, which gives him an average for all matches of 27.05 His highest score was 111, which he made in the second innings of the Gentlemen of Philadelpia against Dublin university; he also made a 102 for Philadelphia vs. Liverpool, but his best performance was against the Gentlemen of Ireland, when he made in Philadelphia's second innings, 81, with out a mistake...
Work began in Asos in 1881 and in consequence of the success of the adventure an American school was established at Athens. The students, thirty in number, come in direct contact with the work of the great masters and no more broadening influence can be exerted on men than being present with these ancient works of art. The French school is a marked example of this. The students returning thoroughly interested in their work have influenced the whole French system of education. The Athenian school is a centre from which men may start in their researches, and Athens itself...