Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent issue of the N. Y. Times was a very pertinent article on incompetent lectures. It was called forth by the press criticisms on the delivery of Canon Farrar, who expresses himself as pleased with the frankness of the American papers. There have been a number of English lecturers in this country who are deplorably deficient in the rudiments of good delivery, and however much they are popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when...
...American twenty-four hour bicycle record was broken Saturday by Munger of Detroit, who accomplished 259 13-16 miles in the given time...
...cause of the troubles which at first were the plague of the state was the irresponsible spirit which pervaded all classes. The early political life of the state was influenced largely by the presence of Southern politicians, so that finally the Democratic party was in the ascendant. The American treatment of the natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible means to make them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions...
...Phillips Academies, located respectively at Andover, Mass., and Exeter, N. H., together with the Williston Seminary at East Hampton, Mass., stand among the first of American preparatory schools, yet Princeton has a per cent. of patronage from these institutions far below either that of Harvard, Yale or Amherst...
...Baker now holds the inter-collegiate record in the 220, 440, and half-mile runs, and the American amateur record in the 220 yards...