Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amounts which they receive from editors or publishers. The New York Tribune, however, notes an exception in the case of Mr. Seelye, president of Amherst college, if the following anecdote which it relates concerning him be true - "President Seelye, of Amherst College, recently received from the North American Review, in payment for an article, a check which rather staggered him by its munificence. He told one of his classes that his labor had been so small and the recompense was so large that he had concluded to make a present of the latter. Then he gave each member...
...Catholic or American University is to be located at Washington, D. C. The endowment now in sight is nearly $1,000,000. The founders will not be content with a support insufficient to produce an income of from $300,000 to $400,000; which is the aggregate outgo for any one of the leading universities of England or Germany. The work intended in science, especially in chemistry, engineering and abstruse mathematics, will be abreast with that done in the eading German universities...
...recent issue of one of the daily papers of Boston, a prominent professor in the classical department of the university, published an appeal for money to support the American School at Athens. For years we have heard from all sides in answer to our re-current plea for various improvements in the college buildings, the cry of "no money." And "no money" it will doubtless be, until Gore Hall falls a mass of ruins upon the spot which it has failed to enlighten. We feel some-what like the friends of our religious home missions when told of the success...
...committee on reports and resolutions. The report of the committee on the library was also presented and referred to the same committee. The following resolution was presented and laid on the table: That in the judgment of this board it is desirable that a Peabody professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology be established in the university...
...exchanges we notice a discussion on the "Movability of Students," which is so much opposed to our own ideas on the subject that we must give it more than passing notice. The writer says: "A movement for exchanging professors in American colleges has recently been set on foot. Much would undoubtedly be gained by such an arrangement. Not only would the students, in a far greater degree than now, be accustomed to independent judgment; but their views on any subject would be broadened and their tolerance of other people's opinions would be increased by listening to lectures by different...