Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand varieties. There is no one collection in the world which contains so many varieties. Their arrangement is also excellent. In one row we can trace the apple as it first existed in Central Asia up through varieties to the crab apple; till finally it reaches the ordinary American apple...
...that society life which at Harvard takes on so many and so varied forms, is at Princeton centred in the two great debating societies, the American Whig, and Cliosophic societies. These two are introduced to the incoming freshman by the numerous and urgent appeals from members to join the one to which the particular advocate belongs. In former days the excitement over the acquirement of new members was very great at the beginning of a college year; and the abuses brought about by the zeal of injudicious members necessitated the negotiation of a treaty between the "Halls" to insure deliberation...
With such associations and surroundings, it is not surprising that Princeton offers the most thorough general course in debate of all our American colleges, and that her graduates are found to a great extent in the ranks of legislators, statesmen, and judges...
...Atlantic Monthly for February, in addition to the continued stories by Henry James, Mrs. Oliphant and Chas. Egbert Craddock, has articles on "Ministerial Responsibility and the Constitution" by A. D. Lowell, "An American Soldier in China" by A. A. Hayer, "A Rhapsody of Clouds," "A Half-Score New Novelists," and "John Brown." There is also a short story, "Salem Cupboards," by Eleanor Putnam, and among the several other poems a contribution entitled "The Homestead," by Whittier...
...into soluble sugar, and to divide the nitrogenous food so as to render the access of gastric juice to all particles of it easy, on its arrival in the stomach. When a large amount of ice-water is taken with meals, dyspepsia undoubtedly results from it at times. As Americans are the great consumers of water in this condition, it has been called American, or ice-water dyspepsia. Drink should be taken mainly at the end of the meal. Potatoes should be thoroughly cooked so as to be mealy, otherwise the saliva cannot do its whole work. Excessive muscular exertion...