Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stationery the Society keeps Ward's Irish Linen in three grades, Royal, Ulster, and Pure Flax, all in various sizes with envelopes to match. Also Beacon Hill and other American linens. Bond paper, correspondence cards and visising envelopes. Theme, thesis, punched student cover, and history paper. Some large sheets of cross-ruled paper, spaced to 1-3 inch...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation The Treatment of the American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War. Mr. C. F. A. Currier. Sever...
...stationery the Society keeps Ward's Irish Linen in three grades, Royal, Ulster, and Pure Flax, all in various sizes with envelopes to match. Also Beacon Hill and other American linens. Bond paper, correspondence cards and visising envelopes. Theme, thesis, punched student cover, and history paper. Some large sheets of cross-ruled paper, spaced to 1-3 inch...
...stamps himself as ignorant not only of the Phi Beta Kappa Society but also of Harvard University. One and all of the gentlemen to whom covert allusion is had were elected in accordance with a standard of scholarship which is recognized by Harvard University as the highest. If any American college cares to dictate in the matter, every courtesy will be extended for the purpose, but nothing more. The methods of Harvard are her own. Courtesy may degenerate into carping...