Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talk of "narrowing down our models" when objection is made to the imitation of England's institutions. We need no broader or more liberal copy than the true story of Americanism. As for those who find "the dress of Englishmen more becoming, and their speech more musical than our own," let them preserve, and "try to copy after them in these respects." I do not imagine, however, that "our university men" will give their influence in that direction, and I believe the CRIMSON teaches, not that we are to follow what is American because it is American, but because...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In last Wednesday's issue appeared an article purporting to be a refutation of your admirable remarks on the Anglomaniac tendencies of American colleges. The positions assumed by the author of the reply are such as to merit an indignant protest from any patriotic student of Harvard...
...reviewer continues; - "It is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own." But do they? Does the writer insinuate that an English House of Commons is better than an American House of Representatives? If he does, is he the "patriotic" student he claims...
...tendencies the CRIMSON reprobated were the adoption of ways not simply un-American, but highly ridiculous as well. The assumption of an "haw-haw" accent even when the impostor was English, was keenly satirized by Lord Lytton in his novel "Night and Morning...
...subject of Anglomania has perhaps had quite enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather...