Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Bowen, of Harvard, is the only representative of American upon the committee to erect a statue to the memory of Schopenhuer. The committee includes such eminent men as Ernest Renan, Max Muller of Oxford, Brahmane Ragot, Rampal Sing, and Rudolf Von Thering the celebrated Romanist of Gottingen...
...believe that Harvard's boating interests would permanently suffer. Temporarily, it is true, the college would be at a disadvantage, but as soon as other colleges were forced to the position taken by Harvard, equality would be restored. In other words, in the hope of ultimately revolutionizing the American college system of athletics, Harvard's chances of success are to be sacrificed...
Since Bowdoin and Cornell have done away with Saturday recitations the only prominent American institution retaining this medieval custom is the Boston Institute of Technology. -[Michigan Argonaut...
...satisfactory account of the more obscure passages in Poe's life-is the most important article in the number. It is written by George E. Woodberry. Dr. Mitchell's serial, "In War Time," is finished. Two short stories entitled "Penelope's Suitors," by E. L. Bynner, and "An American Flirtation," by Grace Denio Litchfield, are excellent reading. Stuart Chimsholm gives an account of experiences in South America in "Over the Andes," and another paper is added to the series on "The Lakes of Upper Italy." A sketch by Francis Coppee, and an article by Lathrop on "Combination Novels," are interesting...
...there the shells from the British forts fell so dangerously near, that a removal of the General's quarters, further out to the old Longfellow house on Brattle street was made necessary; also that Massachusetts, as well as the old church opposite, was used in revolutionary times for quartering American troops. We pass up Brattle street to Appian Way, whose name is enough to invite our attention, but which has other and perhaps greater charms than any classical name could give it. Entering Appian Way from Brattle street we cannot overlook the fine building on the left, which speaks...