Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hodgson's "Errors in the Use of English." American revised edition...
...women are to be given the right to vote, they ought certainly to be given instructions which will fit them to perform their duties as citizens. Naturally a knowledge of American institutions and of American history is of the first consequence, yet we find but scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight...
...indoor athletic meeting of the N. A. A. A. A. on March 2 will be the greatest meeting of the kind ever held. Columbia College alone sends fifty entries and the Atherton Athletic Club sends six hundred. Holders of English, Irish, Canadian, American and intercollegiate championships will compete...
...Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons, even American works like those of Perry and Sumner following in the line of foreign teaching. As the result, the great majority of college students are free traders at their graduation. After leaving college, however, they see the actual condition of trade and the perplexing questions growing out of the selfish rivalry...
JAMES W. BRINE, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, 436 Harvard Street, has the best line of Gents' Furnishing Goods, at the most reasonable prices, in Cambridge, and warrants all goods Best Quality. Genuine English Mackintoshes, American Mackintoshes, Umbrellas, Hamilton's London Trouser Stretcher and all kinds of Athletic Goods. Clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired at short notice...