Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prominent merchant of Boston, whose name is not made known, a chair of comparative pathology is to be founded at the Medical School. The benefactor advances $100,000 for the endowment of the chair. This will be the first establishment of a professorship of comparative pathology in any American university...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. Congress and Revolutionary Army. Mr. L. C. Hatch. University...
...Square. Miss Lane deserves as much credit for her work as does Mme. Melba. Seldom in my life have I found so sweet and sympathetic a voice as hers. Her Marguerite was a revelation. While that company remains there, there is a proof of what can be done by American artists, trained in America, in the American language...
...University of Chicago has three new publications-the Botanical Gazette, the American Journal of Theology and the University Record. The North Central Association of Colleges met there last week. The association comprises all the universities, colleges and secondary schools of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas...
...educated American naturally asks himself of what character his house shall consist. He may strictly follow the plan of ancient houses, but such an interpretation is too strict to be generally adopted. There are new ideas which must of necessity influence an architect of today. The monkish cloisters cannot be conformed to modern needs. While the ancient Roman villa would answer the requirements of Lenox or Newport, other forms of architecture would be illsuited to our time...