Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Union debate. Sever 11. 7.30 p. m. Question: "Resolved, that the Parochial School system is dangerous to American institutious...
...sign-boards which are such ancient landmarks on Jarvis Field. I should like, if you will permit me, to emphasize your words, and, indeed, to add to them a little. Anyone who has been much on Jarvis during the foot-ball practice knows what an unmitigated nuisance the "American youth"- or in other words-Cambridge muckers, make of themselves, by continually rushing in and out among the spectators, yelling and hooting and making themselves generally obnoxious to everybody. These atoms of brass even go so far as frequently to run across the foot-ball field, to the annoyance...
...ball fields there are a couple of curious old sign-boards which freshmen are won't to look upon with awe, but still with a certain satisfaction. They refer to ball-playing and some of the other accomplishments of the American youth as practised by those who are not members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years...
...best American sweater at $3.75 formerly offered elsewhere as "English" at $5. The cheapest, not the best, $1.70. The society quotes the same price to all and adheres...
Question; "Resolved, That the Parochial School System is Dangerous to American Institutions...