Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of college professors recently met in New York and formed the American Economic Association. The object of the society is to promote among thinking men a more careful study and a better understanding of the economic problems, and especially those in which labor is involved. Among those connected with it are Francis A. Walker of the Institute of Technology, Pres. Adams of Cornell, Prof. Ely of Johns Hopkins, and Prof. James of the University of Pennsylvania...
...first American college paper was published in 1810, at Dartmouth college; name, "Dartmouth Gazette...
...opportunities for debate and discussion that Harvard men now enjoy in the Union. This proposal which is made at Yale is but one of the many with which our college papers all over the country are filled. To-day there seems to be a sort of fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students directly informed about the public business of the nation, is a very hopeful sign. The old societies used to discuss everything under the sun, except politics and religion, which...
READING ROOM. Subscribers are urged to pay their subscriptions at once. The room needs funds. Files of the following papers will be sold to the highest bidder. Judge, Puck, Life, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, Punch, Scientific American, Illustrated London News, Harper's Weekly, Pall Mall Budget, Youth's Companion, Nation, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Louisville Courier Journal, Columbia Spectator, Yale Courant, and others. Any student desiring files of any papers may communicate with the undersigned...
...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...