Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same play here in Sanders Theatre a few years ago. The author closes his remarks by "I would say that the difference between the two representations of 'King OEdipus"- apart from the music of which I have already spoken-is the difference between painting and sculpture. The American play was sculpturesque and the English play was picturesque...
...continuance will bring the country to a silver basis with all its attendant evils; (b) gold will disappear; (c) the credit of the United States will be impaired; (d) the people, both laborers and capitalists, will suffer; (e) international trade will be carried on with great difficulty.- North American Review, June, 1885, Oct., 1886; Jevon's Currency and Finance, pp. 305 and 306; Nation...
...Facts do not justify fear of disaster due to the coinage of standard silver dollars, much less do they justify fear of immediate danger from that cause.- Laughlin's Bi-metallism, ch. xiii and xiv; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, p. 326; North American Review...
...Yale, were fed upon the Scotch diet than upon any other historical material. When one contrasts the old-fashioned manuals of Adams and Eschenburg with the water-like "primers" which are everywhere in vogue, it is not surprising that a knowledge of ancient politics is dying out in American schools. In these days, when teachers and students alike are rushing toward modern studies in history and political science, it is refreshing to see such a wholesome treatment of Roman constitutional law as is presented at Yale. A scholarly balance between ancient and modern history is likely to be maintained...
...courses of historical information for the current year, 1886-87, he will be strongly impressed with the remarkable advance made during the past decade. In the number, variety, extent and attractiveness of the historical work now offered at Harvard University that institution rivals a German university. The American student no longer absolutely needs to go abroad for thorough instruction in European and American History. He can find it in Cambridge, Mass. All the methods which characterize the most advanced historical work and all the facilities for special research in libraries that a student could reasonably demand are in existence there...