Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give you therefore, my brethren, the President of the United States: wisdom to the head, courage to the heart, strength to the hands, always of him who shall bear aloft the shield on which are emblazoned the arms of the American Union. (Applause...
...people's faith and confidence in the administration of their government. [Applause.] No public officer should desire in the least to see checked the utmost criticism of all official acts. But every fair-minded man must conceive that your president should not be put beyond the protection which American fair play and American love of decency accords to every American citizen. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good] good...
...before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population as in those formative years of this portion of the American people. And who were these men, the larger part of whom were from Cambridge, and of whom at least a score were from Emmanuel? There was Simon Bradstreet, destined to span the two charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied...
...here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays, had eclipsed everybody. He was longing to acquire the competence that would allow him to retire to his native town...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Mineral Cabinet in Boyleston Hall will be open to-day and Monday, from 9 to 5 o'clock, and to-morrow (Sunday) from 1 to 5 o'clock. The Botanic Garden will also be open during the anniversary...