Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wider scope even than the class dinners which are a unifying element of very great value. There were representatives of all the college interests gathered to do honor to a man whom all classes of men must respect. The dinner had all the spontaneity and informality of American college life and it will remain in the minds of those who attended as one of the landmarks of their university career. Professor Drummond spoke briefly of the high regard in which Harvard is held by European universities and told of his own high appreciation of Harvard's work. Toasts were responded...
...hundred and fifty graduates of American colleges are in European universities preparing for educational work in this country...
There has just been published in the American Statesmen series by Houghton Mifflin and Co. a new life of Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse Jr. The book is in two volumes and is very attractively gotten up. The story is told in a simple easy style; the matter is of course interesting and it is well handled...
...leading article of the Atlantic for May is "European Peasants as Immigrants" by Professor N. S. Shaler. The author considers elaborately the nature of European peasants showing that they are in general of a character much beneath what is to be desired in an American citizen. The reasons of their inferiority are explained in a simple and satisfactory way, and the conclusion is reached "That the American commonwealth would never have been founded if the first European colonists had been of peasant stock. It is doubtful whether it can be maintained if its preservation comes to depend upon such...
...number opens with "The Columbian Exposition and American civilization" by Henry Van Brunt. The author shows that the influence of the World's Fair will certainly be for the good not only of all the industrial and liberal arts but also of the fine arts. "Admiral Saumarez" is a biographical sketch of one of the ablest of English admirals, a contemporary of Nelson and Lord St. Vincent. The fact that the article is written by A. T. Mahan is a guarantee of its interest. Other good articles are "The English Question" by J. J. Greenough; "'Tis Sixty Years Since...