Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise...
...American Canoe Association has offered a cup valued at $300 as a prize for an inter-national canoe contest to be sailed in New York Bay next summer...
...veterinary hospital; Edwin Farnham, M. D., lecturer on health and strength, all for 1885-86; and Winfield Scott Chaplin, A. M., Dean of the Faculty of Lawrence Scientic School. It was voted not to concur with the President and Fellows in the establishment of a professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology...
...enthusiasm over political matters exists among the students of the great English Universities, and it is interesting to see what effect the present close election in England has upon the English undergraduates. The English Universities have always been strongholds of conservatism, and although it seems strange to the democratic American that a body of educated men should so place themselves in opposition to the liberal spirit of progress, it must be remembered that a large number of students belong to the aristocratic families...
...semi-annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens was held in Prof. Ware's library at Cornell last week. In the fall of 1882 this school was founded by the Archaeological Institute of America, of which Professor Charles Eliot Norton is now President. The inability to provide permanent quarters for the College at Athens was the subject for discussion at this convention. The Greek Government has come forward with the offer of a convenient site for the proposed building, and has shown great interest in the project. Energetic efforts are being made...