Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard Engineering Society. Some Thoughts on Engineering Education: The Choice of a Profession. Mr. E. B. Coxe, President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Lawrence Scientific School...
THOMAS WESTON, JR., and W. B. WOLFFE.Best general references: Sumner's American Currency, 197-227; Boston Herald, Dec. 3-5, 14-19; Boston Advertiser, Dec. 4, 5, 15, 18; Nation, Vol. 59, p. 435; Public Opinion, Vol. XVII, p. 884; Pol. Sci. Quar...
...graduate and professional schools are full of significance. It is interesting, for instance, to learn that seventy different colleges are represented by graduates in the Law School; between seventy and eighty in the Graduate School; and thirty-five in the Medical School. These men have come, not only from American colleges, but in some cases from the great English and European Universities. All of which goes to show that Harvard is, in the true sense of the word, a university, and to prove her right to be considered the leading institution of learning in America...
Last evening, under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union, Dr. Edward Everett Hale delivered an address on "The National Church of America." He explained that while we have here no established church, the religious thought of the whole American people unifies itself into a national church, of which the fundamental principle is the denial of the old Puritan dogma that man is by nature depraved, and a child of the devil. If Americans had believed this, they would never have allowed universal suffrage...
...believe that the soul is immortal, and that God, in his love, sent Jesus Christ to save mankind; all unite in firm belief in a God who is a mighty power of law and love to his children; and the creed of the national church, whose head is the American people, is maintained by them in defiance of all theological dogmas...