Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Campbell; The Negro vote in American Politics. Sever...
...American acceptance of the term, the institution is not a University; for instance, it contains no Law School or Medical department. Yet it is rapidly growing in size, and great improvements are contemplated. It owns many of the buildings in the surrounding blocks, and as its capital increases, it tears them away to make room for buildings of its own. Its friends, indeed, have every reason to be proud of its rapid growth...
...Furnival speaks as follows on Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor...
Twenty-two American students have left St. Laurent College, Montreal. They claim that they have had improper food and that small pox has broken out among the students...
...have a composite photograph of the class taken, - and taken it was. Perhaps some of our readers may not understand what a composite photograph is, - we would not insinuate that the able committee do not, - so a few words of explanation may not be out of order. The Scientific American has lately been publishing some articles on this interesting subject, which run somewhat as follows: - "To obtain the average photograph of a certain class, or kind of men is a easy process. If twenty or more men are to be photographed, they must be taken in the same position...