Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...
...annual races of the American Association of Amateur Oarsmen will take place on the Hudson during the Albany bi-centennial celebration the last week in July...
...Edward Channing will read a paper at the meeting of the American Historical Society in Washington, on a "New England Aristocracy...
...Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology was founded in 1866 by George Peabody of London. His total gift was $150,000, of which $60,000 were to be invested as a building fund, and the remaining $90,000 were to go towards forming a collection, and founding a professorship. Temporary quarters were secured in Boylston Hall by the trustees of the fund, and some very valuable collections were obtained either by gift or purchase. Important among these was the gift of ancient Mexican pottery from Caleb Cushing. The archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well...
...country there is great need of public instruction fitted to perpetuate the spirit of American institutions. The spectacle of children of different races, creeds and social classes attending the same school, is too familiar to need notice, and the common school system of the United States stands acknowledged as one of the grandest achievements of civilization. Yet it seems in danger of being crowded out of existence by opposition from two sources, one positive in its antagonism, the other negative...