Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a concert given on Cambridge Common evening by the American Watch Company Band...
...walk along the beach to their quarters, half a mile distant, the 'University to settle themselves in their little house near by. Within ten minutes after landing, the big red flag with "Harvard" in white letters on it was flying above the quarters and at the Freshman shanty, an American flag...
...Harvard senior proposes to have a composite picture of his class and one of the senior class at Wellesley made into one which he will exhibit as a good type of the coming American. - The Dartmouth...
...idea of arranging an international race between representative college crews of England and America, to be rowed in this country in August, is attracting attention in American college boating circles, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. Early in the spring it was proposed to send over an eight from Cambridge to row Harvard, but this project has fallen through. Cambridge willingly allows any one of the various colleges of which she is composed to compete with other colleges, but Is reluctant in giving her 'varsity crew the same opportunity. It has been suggested that this is the reason...
...American readers will welcome the translation of Dr. von Hoist's 'Constitutional Law of the United States of America' (Chicago: Callaghan & Co.). The author apologizes for consenting to its appearance in this country. It is, he says, but a sketch, written as part of a larger book for German readers - Marquardsen's 'Handbuch des Oeffentlichen Rechts.' - He was limited, moreover, to a very inadequate space, and had to compress his material unduly, and wholly to throw out much; and 'my only literary resources were my private library and the notes previously taken in the British Museum and American libraries.' These...