Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Toronto University Lacrosse Association has offered a trophy to American colleges and Harvard will in all probability compete for it. Let us have a fine team,-the best. All men are requested to meet Mr. Starr at 5 o'clock today in the cage...
...order to prevent their upholding the honor and dignity of the United States by supporting the President and the Secretary of State in their entirely proper attitude on the Venzuelan question. I do not believe that any considerable number either of Senators or Congressmen wonld consent to betray the American cause, the cuase not only of national honor but in reality of international peace, by abandoning our position in the Venezuelan matter; but I earnestly hope that Harvard will be saved from the discredit of advising such a course...
...Monroe Doctrine forbids us to acquiesce in any territorial aggrandizement by a European power on American soil at the expense of an American state. If people wish to reject the Monroe Doctrine in its entirety, their attitde, though discreditable to their farsighted patriotism, is illogical; but let no one pretend that the present Venezuelan case does not come within the strictest view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence...
Best general references: Boston Herald, December 1, 1895; T. B. Reed in North American Review, Vol. 150, pp. 382-390 (March, 1890); and 551-546 (May, 1890); Theodore Roosevelt in Forum, XX, 410-418 (December, 1895); A. B. Hart, Practical Essays...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Meeting of the American Historical Association at Washington. Professor W. H. Siebert and Mr. O. G. Villard. University...