Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard during the year of 1887 has written for the public more than any other American university. Her professors have been contributors to the leading magazines and journals; and several useful text-books have been published which have already made their way into many schools and colleges. Publications on subjects ranging from sociology to botany show the unconservative spirit of the University. And the uniform excellence of the productions reflect credit on the authors, besides being an evidence of incalculable value on the advantages of the superior instruction which a student of Harvard possesses. This activity in writing points...
...sociology, theology and philology; but a deplorable falling off in archaeology and antiquities. The year, as a whole, has been decidedly fruitful, and the University has been keeping pace with the demands of modern civilization. Statistics show that she has been taking the lead of all other American colleges in disseminating knowledge to the English speaking race...
...geology, in addition to various papers in Scribner's Monthly, the Forum, Nation and other well-known journals. The third edition of his "Kentucky" has been brought out by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Professor W. M. Davis has contributed valuable articles on meteorology and physical geography in the American Naturalist, Science, and the American Journal of Science. Professor Joseph H. Thayer has done some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised...
...Anglo-American students' club has been organized in Berlin and there are several Harvard graduates in its list of officers, namely: President, H. C. Bierworth, Mack, one of two vice-presidents, and Von Klenze, treasurer...
...American Society for Psychical Research, whose secretary, Mr. Richard Hodgson, is to lecture next Monday evening for the benefit of the University Crew, is a society in which the college should be interested because so many of the professors are leading members, and because it has been proved that a study of the laws of mental action is one that can be carried on to advantage. Among the leading movers in the society the names of Dr. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School, Professor Pickering, of the Observatory, Professors Royce and James and Mr. S. N. Scudder, are well-known...