Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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History 13 will be conducted by Dr. Channing next Thursday, while Dr. Hart will conduct History 18 on the same day. Mr. Hart considers that inasmuch as Dr. Channing is the greatest authority in American colorial history, he should properly conduct the lecture in History 13, which comes under his proper field...
...university is the thermometer of the community from which the students are recruited. There are many electiues here, but life is not one of them; we must live. Therefore let us live that largest life possible, the life of a true, christian gentleman. We are the leaders of the American community; we must be it when we go forth from here. For this we must have life, and let us get it here at its fountain. We, as preachers here, have for our object to become better acquainted with you, to know you as man knows man, and to offer...
...following is from the Pennsylvanian: "Harvard college will celebrate its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary next November. It is not the oldest American University, as that of Mexico is fifty years older...
...student body as a whole is given over to expensive living because of the above cited existing abuses, so called, is to deny the exceptional advantages offered to and embraced by students of small means to pursue studies at Harvard, - advantages which confessedly surpass those presented by any other American university. A struggle for social position with all its attendant expenses is absolutely unavoidable among students thrown together, as are those of Harvard. Those who are most determined to secure such position will not consent, nor do their friends so encourage them, to a return to the Puritan methods...
...Rebellion, and was for some months a prisoner of war. He spent several years in Europe, devoting himself to the study of modern languages and literature. He was an accomplished scholar in German and French, and at the time of his death held the position of American editor to a "Cyclopedic Dictionary" about to be published in Paris...