Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind, not one good reason for tolerating these contests away from the college; and if there were, it would be far outweighed by the pecuniary consideration just advanced, the distraction from the main end of college life, the encouragement given to the gambling spirit so strong in the American breast, and the hostile feelings engendered and perpetuated between colleges whose only rivalry should be in the domain of the intellect. I am firmly persuaded that the intercollegiate sports are as much chargeable with the survival of the traditional animosity between Yale and Harvard, for example, as our primary text books...
...Society will have for this coming year, the best of facilities for procuring both foreign and American books, with out any other than accidental delay. Let all send in their orders at once. If a student finds, after the arrival of his books that he must change a course elected, he will be reasonably sure of disposing of his books to some other member by notifying the Society early. But the Society accepts no risks whatever in such cases...
...Society will have for this coming year, the best of facilities for procuring both foreign and American books, with out any other than accidental delay. Let all send in their orders at once. If a student finds, after the arrival of his books that he must change a course elected, he will be reasonably sure of disposing of his books to some other member by notifying the Society early. But the Society accepts no risks whatever in such cases...
...Stillman has an able letter in the last Nation about the necessity of having a permanent head to the American School at Athens...
...last issue of the American Architect and Builder contains an interesting article on the statue of John Harvard, accompanied by a very fine reproduction...