Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edmund Gosse told a London reporter regarding American audiences that he found the Bostonians the most critical, sharp, bright, and sensitive: "But all were most enthusiastic and indulgent. My reception at the academic centres-at Harvard University, at Yale College, at that brilliant young nucleus of scholarly life, the Johns Hopkins University-was uniformly cordial and touching. Everywhere the welcome was frank, complete, and far beyond my deserts...
Student life is always thought to be characterized bya hearty espritducorps. This is undoubtedly true of the greater number of colleges, especially American colleges. Of late years, however, it has become whispered that Harvard is losing this spirit of good-fellowship. It is said that the men studying at Cambridge are broken up into cliques. It is hinted that class feeling is but a tradition of the past,- and recent events seem to indicate that this statement is a true...
...tactics of partisan warfare are used, possess a great advantage over the ordinary debating society in their sharp contest of wits, and this in the practical experience, which such a vigorous contest produces. The experiment of holding a mock congress has been successful in several American colleges, and certainly ought not to fail at Cornell. The great interest and excitement of a lively convention ought to guarantee a hearty support to the plan, and the Cornell students, if they take hold of the matter with a will, certainly ought to have a good deal of amusement and benefit combined...
...valuable gift just made to the library of Michigan University, is that of the printed translations from 1832 to 1884 of the American Philosophical Society. The library set from the foundation of the society by Benjamin Franklin is thus completed...
...medical faculty at Harvard, have placed several hundred American books in the reading room of the medical building as an experiment. If it proves successful, the number will be continually increased...