Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...among other things: "Of our 139 self-styled universities, Professor Bryce thought that seven or eight or, at most, twelve, deserved the term, and Professor Von Holst finds only 'a torso of a university' in the whole country. At any rate we do not meet the demand, or 411 American students would not be found, as they were last year, in the nine Prussian universities...
April 2.- Contemporary English and American Novelists...
...many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records are singly counted. The American system is to count books as bound, and not to separate their component parts in the enumeration...
...American Oriental Society will hold its annual meeting at Columbia College in New York city, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 29, 30 and 31. This society was founded in 1842, and had its first meeting at Harvard...
...program of the Convention of the American Republican College League, to be held at Syracuse University, April 6, contains the following features: Addresses will be delivered at the afternoon session by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Gen. James S. Clarkson, Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Professor George Gunton, and Hon. Robert P. Porter. At 5 p. m., a reception will be given to the delegates, speakers, and guests at the Republican Club. At 7 o'clock Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver, and probably Gov. McKinly will address a mass meeting to be held at the Weiting Opera House...