Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual field meeting of the American Association of Amateur Athletes will take place on the 17th of next September...
...what has become of that much agitated national foot-ball team which was to be sent abroad in the interest of American college sports by that fast developing institution? On the whole, perhaps, the quadrangular league sounds well enough as it is. - Yale Courant...
...school, who spoke of the advance of the negro since his emancipation twenty five years ago; yet he said that the vast mass of the population is still in dense ignorance. What is asked for the negro is not mere rights, he has all the rights of American citizens, but more light. The speaker said that in his experience he learned as much as he taught; he found his people only too eager to learn. The sorest need of this people is for teachers, and the Hampden school is the place for such teachers to be prepared, and the school...
...AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS...
...concert given last evening by the musical societies for the benefit of the American School at Athens proved, as was to be expected, a complete success. Those who braved the inclement weather and went to Boston were repaid fully for their pains in hearing an amateur concert that showed no traces of those dreadful evils which are so apt to be brought into prominence in such performances. The work of pushing the fund in aid of the School at Athens has been begun with energy. So worthy an object will not need to go begging...