Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "The value of Recent American Work in Fiction discussed and illustrated...
...Finance Club, and any present undergraduate may contest for it. A candidate may present an essay on any economic subject other than here mentioned, provided it be approved by the committee of award. The essays must not exceed in length the amount of 25 pages of the North American Review, and must be handed in by November 1. The judges are Professor Charles F. Dunbar, Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, and Mr. Hamilton A. Hill...
James W. Alexander, president of the Alumni Association of Princeton College, told of the esteem in which Harvard was held by Princeton men. He said that if Harvard College should abolish Greek and Latin and prayers, as was proposed, American fathers would be obliged to send their sons to Princeton for the classics and religion, and to Yale for foot-ball. [Laughter.] The Hon. John P. Washburne, of Worcester, spoke briefly as a representative of the Harvard class of '53. He said that that class had given to Harvard its present president. As it was true that John Harvard founded...
...books for taking notes. He leisurely hangs up his hat and coat, spreads out his papers, and takes from his pocket an inkstand and a common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing to the German student, and somebody will undoubtedly make a great fortune by introducing that instrument of comfort and safety, unless, indeed, the conservatism of the Germans should resent and refuse such an improvement. After the student has made his preparation for work...
...busy life. He is compelled to attend school from his fifth to his fourteenth year. If he chooses to prolong his course he enters either the gymnasium or the realschule when he is nine or ten The gymnasium has a nine or ten years' course, and corresponds to the American preparatory school and the first two years of college. Mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, history, geography, natural history and elementary natural philosophy, a short course in logic, with elective Hebrew and English form the course of study. The method is systematic, the discipline rigorous. The students usually pass from the gymnasium...