Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glass. This performance is loaded with tremendous odium and the men are very careful about challenging a new member without sufficient cause. There is an element of humor and "coziness" combined with a certain amount of rigid discipline in all these ceremonies which is very refreshing, compared with all American attempts at beer-nights which would seem to bear out successfully the assertion of our German friend...
...numbers are in any way a proof of progress, Harvard has certainly advanced. And we think that the day, if not now present, is surely not far distant when she will in every way be fitted to stand as the typical American university; when at Harvard can be found the most earnest students from all parts of our land...
...March contains an article by Justin Winsor on "Americana," and also a discussion of "The United States after the Revolutionary War" by John Fiske. "Americana," as its name would imply, is a review of the bibliographical records of America, and as such deserves the close attention of students of American history. John Fiske's article is a valuable study of the growth of the United States since the revolution...
Prof. John Fiske will deliver his course of lectures on American History in New York beginning...
...these court-rooms the law students are admitted with members of the bar, and have rare opportunities to see practical application of the principles which they find in their books. The Law School library is said to be the best in the country, containing all the English and American reports...