Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Home rule for Ireland defined.- The Gladstone Home Rule Bill; Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1887; Fortnightly Review, xvii., 20; American Catholic Review, viii...
...Home rule for Ireland is a necessity.- Contemporary Review, March and August, 1887; Gentleman's Magazine, May, 1887; North American Review...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Permit me to make a few comments in regard to your editorial yesterday on boating. Although I am a man but little up in boating matters, it seems to me that such an arrangement between English and American crews would be not only possible but also highly desirable. It is useless to deny that there is something the matter, not only with boating, but also with the other athletics at Harvard. A fresh stimulus must be given to our athletics to prevent our position being lowered still further...
...arrangement was made by which the winners of English and American intercollegiate races should meet each other annually, it would infuse new life into our decaying athletics, and also would, as the editorial says, increase the interest in college boating enormously...
...November Magazine of American History is one of the brightest and most richly illustrated issues of the year. Oliver Cromwell's portralt appears as its frontispiece, incident to the romantic story of the first settlement of Shelter Island, in 1652, told by Mrs Lamb in her happiest vein, entitled the "Historic Home of the Sylvesters." The paper is informing on a multitude of hitherto obscure points in early American history, and is delightfully diversified with incidents. Rev. Philip Schaff, D. D., contributes a second paper on the "Relation of Church and State in America." A very pleasantly written sketch...