Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anglo-American Relations, 1853-61", Professor Baxter,-Harvard...
...Harvard College Observatory is to be the host of the forty-third meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which is to last from Monday, December 30 to Thursday, January 2. About 100 out-of-town visitors are expected, including astronomers from all parts of the United States and Canada. The purpose of the meeting is to make known the latest discoveries, to expose the newest theories to criticism, and to exchange ideas on the cosmic riddles. Papers on these subjects are to be discussed in several sessions throughout the period...
...post-season honor, two of these men, Bland and Stollmeyer, have been named on the 1929 "All Collegiate" soccer team, as selected by Coach Nies of Princeton. Coach McPete of Haverford has also chosen a team. Both these men, who annually pick all-American soccer squads, agree that three Penn State players should be included on the 1929 team, but otherwise their selections differ widely. Nies has also selected two Yale men for his first team...
...English system, in being transplanted, necessarily has been changed in many ways, with the especial purpose of adapting it to the American point of view. It would seem wise to start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite committments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seemed to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this House off with a strong anglophile bias...
...difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined if at first the House Plan is approached in an attitude of honest experiment, unprejudiced either way as to the incorporation of English ideas...