Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spoke of the observance of the Sabbath. He protested against the increasing laxity in regard to this day, and deprecated the ridicule of the old-fashioned Sunday. The church is in danger of losing one of the highest and holiest symbols of verity that man can know. Our exciting American life needs just such relief as this day affords. It gives us splendid opportunity for considering those great questions which every earnest man should consider. It makes possible the personal growth in faith, sympathy and sacred endeavor. It is the day for the cultivation of the spiritual nature which...
Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-138; Smith, Const. Manual and Digest (see "Speaker" in Index) 52 Cong. 1 Sess. 1892; Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 91; A. B. Hart, Practical Essays, No. 1, pp. 1-19; J. G. Carlisle in North American Review, Vol. 150, pp. 390-400 (Mch. 1890); Senator Hoar in North American Review...
...Monday.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...
...quote one of the leading American statesmen and lawyers in a speech delivered some months ago on this very subject: "Let it be equally well known and understood that any attempt of a non-American nation to sieze a foot of American soil will be treated as a declaration of war against the United States. Such is the Monroe Doctrine...
...this what England has done? And does not his duty to the American people and their traditions and interests demand such action as the president has taken? And is not any failure to support the president in this action unpatriotic, un-American and so at variance with every Harvard tradition...