Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American cricket team which will cross the Atlantic next summer has been selected. There are a number of college men on the team, notably among whom are J. A. Scott and W. Scott of the University of Pennsylvania. Cricket has always been one of the most popular of athletic sports at the University of Pennsylvania, and that fact will account for Pennsylvania's large representation on the team. Cricket in the American colleges has been growing steadily in popularity for some years, and now there will be ample opportunity to compare the standard of excellence reached in America with that...
Washington is a centre in which great educational resources are brought together, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers...
...combined libraries of forty-eight American colleges number 2,055,976 volumes...
...However desirable it may be that this change should be made, we feel sure that a very large number of those who have given any attention to American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving...
Until recently it was expected that the college athletic associations would continue their connection with the North American Amateur Athletic Association and enter as usual in their coming games. At the meeting, however, of the intercollegiate delegates, held in New York on Saturday, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, it was unanimously agreed to withdraw from the N. A. A. A. A. The delegates wish it to be understood that their action is not to be construed as approving or disapproving of the principles of any other association. The following officers were elected: President, J. M. Hallowell of Harvard; vice-president...