Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Attention is called to prizes offered by the American Protective Tariff League for the three best essays on a subject in Political Economy. Full particulars are published on the first page of this issue...
...still it is impossible not to feel that the retirement of Doctor McCosh from the Presidency of Princeton College is a loss to that institution. His loyalty and devotion have done much to maintain the honor of Princeton while his energies have placed her in the front rank of American colleges. She will not find easily so staunch a friend to accept the post which this resignation has made empty...
...their instructors or fellow students. The class individuality asserts itself, and we can hope to get the general type only when a co-composite of many class composites has been made, and this will then be perhaps somewhat untrue, for I suspect that the type of senior in our American colleges is slowly changing. Would the composites of the same class in different colleges be identical? Many will probably be surprised at the diversity of those senior portraits. Although we are not justified in taking any of these as exhibiting the general type of senior in each college, they must...
Last night the Harvard Union held its usual bi-weekly meeting and in spite of the rainy weather, a fair attendance was present. The question for debate was, Resolved. That the Parochial School System is dangerous to American institutions. The vote on the merit of the question was taken. The result was, affirmative, 34; negative, 16. Mr. Platt, '88, was the first speaker for the affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence...
...negative declared that parochial schools were free and open to all denominations, and that all religious creeds were clamoring for parochial schools. Youths of to-day were growing up in infidelity and atheism, and that the institutions of the country depended upon the morality and integrity of the American, which in their turn would only be developed by religious teaching...