Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some days ago the Harvard Classical Club issued an invitation to the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality to give a concert for the benefit of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It is well known in literary and scientific circles that this school is doing much toward giving American classical scholars a chance to take a position in the world of archaeological and philological research. The fact that Dr. Charles Waldstein has been appointed to the directorship of the school, on condition that a fund of $100,000 is secured, is also well known. It is toward furthering...
...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 vising envelopes. Theme, thesis, punched student cover, and history paper. Somelarge sheets of cross ruled paper, spaced to 1-3 inch...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Treatment of the American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War. Mr. C. F. A. Currier. Sever...
...would lay stress, and consequently on the sequent fact that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first...
Prof. Shaler, in his paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...