Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nothing in the whole range of manly training which can equal it, the ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday, lifting a decorous mass of 6000 cold American onlookers into a crowd of passionate enthusiasts, forgetting all the forced and frigid rules of conventional mannerism, in good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body...
...past six months; the necrology of Harvard graduates; a list of the books added to the library up to October 1st; a continued list of the Dante collections of the Harvard and Boston public libraries; a calendar of the Sparks mss.; a list of works on North American Fungi and of the Carlyle collection of works on Frederick the Great...
...pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks...
...American Protective Tariff League has offered to the senior classes of American colleges three prizes of 250,100 and 50 dollars respectively for the best essays on the following subject: "Home production indispenable to supply, at low prices, of the manufactured commodities required for the people of the United States, and adequate home production of these commodities impossible without a productive tariff...
...fictitions name, but must be accompanied by real name and address of the writer, signed by an officer of the college; also with certificate of good standing in a scaled envelope, marked by the same word or signature on the essay. The essays must be sent to the American Protective Tariff League, 23 West Twenty-third street, New York City...