Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editors of the American Law Review and Register have offered two prizes of seventy-five and twenty-five dollars to the two members of the graduating class of the Harvard or other American Law School who shall write the two best annotations between two and three thousand words in length. The subject of each annotation must deal with but one point of law which has been brought up before an American court within the last twelve years. The two articles winning the prizes will be published in the August number of the Law Review...
...American History Leaflet, No. 14, entitled "Plans of Union...
...beautiful valleys of Maryland an army of eight thousand vagabonds who are marching to Washington with no further purpose than to force Congress to pass laws for their own welfare, not for the good of the country. And these vagabonds may be said to be a representative body of American people, for always since the founding of the nation, have states, corporations, and individuals continually sought to make the governing bodies pass laws for their personal benefit. "Never mind the country," they say, "just pass this law for us." With such a state of things, is there not need...
...magazine will shortly appear as the official organ of the American Republican College League. It is to be published monthly in New York City, and will be edited by a board of editors selected from the leading colleges of the country. Prescott Warren '96 has been appointed by the department chairman as the Harvard editor of the new publication...
...Saxon does not seem to have ever been very good at acquiring languages. The number of words derived from the Celtic which are preserved in English is perhaps not greater than those which (like hominy, quahaug, pogie, tauttog, and a few others) our American English has caught from the Indians. Compared with the great mass of our language, the number of words of Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect...