Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first lacrosse game of the season will take place next Saturday, on Jarvis field, at 3 P. M., between the candidates for the American team and Harvard. Admission 25 cents...
Vols. I. and II. of "Stories by American Authors...
...Thomas Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Andrew Lang, and R. W. Gilder. The mere mention of these names is sufficient to show the interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like all Mr. James' work, clever. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's article on "Recent Architecture in America," is very interesting ; the article has little but praise for the new Harvard Medical School, Sever Hall and the Law School. Mr. Hawthorne's article...
...social habit of drinking is essentially vulgar. "The manhood of man is lessened" as he becomes more appreciative of the superiority of French wines manufactured especially for the American market. Intemperance stands pre-eminent among the evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what...
...Professor W. H. Green of Princeton, Dr. Fordyce Barker of New York, and Principal Dawson of Montreal. At the banquet Prof. Lowell responded for literature. "There is no country in the world that owes so much to literature as Scotland. I bring with me the felicitations of three American universities, and their Godspeed to the older university here. We feel as strong as ever that blood is thicker than water. I warmly reciprocate-and feel that I am expressing the feelings of Americans in so doing-the expressions of friendship used at this banquet...