Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students and scholars this will always remain a fruitful theme for discussion, and especially to those upholders of the American claim to superiority residing at the "Hub of the Universe" and classic shades of neighboring Cambridge. The Transcript in an interesting article carries on the discussion in an able manner...
...members of the Canoe Club will be entitled to fly the burgees of the American Canoe Association...
Professor C. R. Lamson has been elected secretary of the American Oriental Society, of which Professor Whiting of Yale, is president...
...American lacrosse team expects to win every match on its foreign trip...
...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...