Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Museums. - The Museums of Zoology the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Mineral Cabinet in Boylston Hall will be open on Friday, Saturday, and Monday from 9 to 5 o'clock, and on Sunday from 1 to 5 o'clock...
...formed at the university and marched to the Heiliggeistkirche to hear the oration, the central literary feature of the jubilee, pronounced by Dr. Kuno Fisher. There is no more noted man in Heidelberg to-day than Kuno Fisher, and none whose works are better known in the United States. American students at Heidelberg are always partial to him, both because of his celebrity and because of his exceptionally clear and distinct pronunciation of his mother tongue. But still he is not to be recommended to the young beginner in German. His lectures are almost all on Philosophy of the most...
...prize of fifty dollars has been established by the class of '76 at Princeton, to be given to the successful contestant in a debate on a subject of current interest in American politics. The prize is to be known as "The Class of 1876 Memorial Prize for debate in Political Science" and the debate is to be held on Washington's Birthday of each year...
According to an exchange, there are 600 American students in the University of Berlin...
...half glass of sherry, in twenty-four hours is the limit of its useful effect. The craving for alcohol is a disease brought about by exposure to hurtful influences or by excessive drinking. All statistics go to show the superior strength of the abstainer from alcohol. In our rapid American life especially, we should put ourselves on the safe side and endeavor to gain strength and longevity by abstinence from alcoholic drink...