Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Columbia was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON, two other Harvard men have accepted positions there. Professor James R. Wheeler received the degree of doctor of philosophy at Harvard in 1885 and will become professor of Greek at Columbia next fall. He was one of the first students at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, and afterward became a director of the school...
...Robinson has been a frequent contributor to scientific and educational literature. He is one of the group of men who have built up the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is one of the editors of The Annals...
...began the lecture by stating briefly the birth, lineage and circumstances of the author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," and "The Marble Faun," Hawthorne was descended from William Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed by one of the victims...
...tales are alike. The sense of sin is the cardinal motive and the dominant quality of all Hawthorne's work. But his treatment of sin never strikes upon the conscience. He uses the conscience rather as a fantastic yet serious play ground for his genius. He is the chief American man of letters. In order to write what he did, and as he did, it was necessary to be a master of style, a genius, and an American...
...Bennett prize of $40 is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. The prize is open to members of the senior class and to special students in the third or fourth year who have taken courses in political science and English literature. The subjects for this year and for next year will be found in the catalogue. Essays must be left with the secretary before...