Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Augustine and by Thomas Aquinas, of Dante and Machiavelli, of Grotius, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Spinoza, Locke and Hobbs, and the more modern theories of such writers as Hegel, Lieber, Humboldt, Bluntschli, Waitz, Spencer, Bagehot and Mulford, with perhaps an exposition of the views of the Fathers of the American Revolution-particularly Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison...
...believe that all the American colleges, excepting Harvard, have an annual publication of the same nature as the Dartmouth "Aegis," which has just come to my notice. The nearest thing that we have to it at Harvard is the "Index," but our Index is not to be compared with the elaborate affair published by Dartmouth and other colleges. Our "Index" is for use and convenience only, but such a publication as the "Aegis" not only embodies a full college directory, but has hard "grinds" on the students and the faculty as well, sketches of college life, cartoons...
...every American who can be chosen on the same day to the three offices of justice of the peace, public weighted and common councilman. The New Haven election brought this combination about in the case of Louis K. Hull of the Yale Law School, formerly captain of the crew...
...last spring in the intercollegiate matches are still studying here, either as undergraduates or law men, and with one exception have signified their intention of trying for places on the team for '85. In addition, Nichols, '83, of the Law School, who last spring played in England with the American team is back, Twombley who played on the Yale twelve of '84, now in the Law school, will play, and there are several very promising new men who were developed as players last spring or at the preparatory schools. The number of candidates being so large the competition for places...
...college libraries form such an important part of the work of their respective institutions, a glance at the relative size of the libraries of American colleges will not be amiss. The latest table of figures which is authoritative is taken from the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica dated 1881. Of course since that time some changes in the relative positions have taken place, but they are not many, and the list stands substantially correct to day as regards position. The growth of all American libraries has, however, been rapid during the last few years and large numbers of books...