Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Seminary of American History and Institutions. Interstate Conflicts, 1783-1789. Mr. E. H. Goodwin. University...
...years of advanced study for their attainment. But it is no longer necessary that the whole period of such study be passed at this University. The practice of intermigration between different universities which offer valuable opportunities of graduate study,-a practice now having much to recommend it to the American student,-is thus rendered possible, so far as the regulations of Harvard are concerned; and with this practice is likely to come much stimulus to the intellectual life of our places of learning...
...last named action of the Faculty was taken in accordance with an expression of opinion from a Convention of Graduate Students, held in the city of New York, 16 April, 1895. This Convention was called at the suggestion of the Harvard Graduate Club. It contained student delegates from fourteen American colleges and universities, having graduate departments, and Faculty delegates from two other institutions; while four more universities expressed their sympathy with the objects of the Convention, though unable, on account of distance, to [send representatives to it. The Convention adopted an "Address to the Governing Boards of American Universities," which...
Professor Putnam lectured last evening in the Fogg Museum on "The Ethnic Significance of Conventionalism and Symbolism in Ancient American Art." He traced by means of illustrations the gradual development from realism to conventionalism and symbolism in the carvings left by the savage peoples. By means of following this development, said Professor Putnam, we have a chance to study the beginings of art till we get into the pure idealism which the old classics have given...
Folk-Lore Club. The Ethnic Significance of Conventionalism and Symbolism in Ancient American Art. (Illutrated.) Professor Putnam. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...