Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book counter: Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...
...rates, competition, railroad legislation, strikes, granger movements and railroad commissions. The course is conducted mainly by lectures; but there are free discussions on all knotty problems or difficult questions, and in addition original thesis work is encouraged by the instructor. The purpose of the course is to give the American citizen a correct knowledge of one of the most important factors of modern civilization...
Some of the Chinese young men who were a few years ago studying in the American colleges are now busily engaged fighting the French on their native soil...
...some one said last year, Harvard is moulting. She is in a transition state. In some respects, she is already wholly unlike the American colleges, whereas in others she retains her old form. Now we hope our readers will not misunderstand what we are going to say. What we are going to advocate is not a step backward on the part of the students, but a corresponding step forward on the part of the Powers that Be-a recognition of the progress of student public sentiment...
...form of extensive notes. A number of diagrams have been inserted in order to aid the student in getting a graphic representation of the principles, while a number of charts, valuable not only for reading, but for continual reference have been scattered through the volume. In every possible case, American illustrations have been employed in the text instead of English or Continental ones, and to American students this will add greatly to the interest and life of the book. A considerable sketch of the history of political economy is given in the earlier pages, and bibliographies are inserted...