Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
Harvard has during the past few days become more than ever the centre of the American College World. There may be many who criticise her methods and there may be justice in the arguments which they put forward, but nothing but praises should be heard while the Alma Mater of so many distinguished men gathers her college children together and celebrates an event which is of prime importance in the college history of America. - Pennsylvanian...
...time of the production of the "Oedipus Tyrannus" at Harvard a few years ago, it was confidently predicted that other American colleges would follow the example, but not until last spring did the prediction come true in the performance of the "Acharnians" of Aristophanes by the students of the University of Pennsylvania. The success of the presentation was such that the play was repeated last Friday evening in New York for the benefit of the American School at Athens. The interest aroused by so unusual an event, as well as by the worthiness of the object, filled the Academy...
...book entitled "Harvard; The First American University," by George Gary Bush, Ph. D., is soon to be published by Messrs. Cupples, Upham & Co. There will be a special limited edition of one hundred sold by subscription, at $5.00 apiece. After publication this limited edition will be raised...
...fifth number of the Advocate appears to-day, with more than its usual amount of good reading. Three stories are among the contributions, which speak well for Harvard undergraduate work. The main story is a romance of American life, called "The Story of Gertrude Comstock," in which the composition and arrangement of the plot are peculiarly strong. The style is more of the old-fashioned simple sort, without the tiresome details of the present realistic tendency in literature. The two other tales, The Wanderings of Alexis II. and the Two Margarets are also vigorous and interesting. The verse contributions...