Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American School at Athens has published as its Fourth Bulletin a report on the work and aims of the school, by Professor J. W. White, recently professor of Greek language and literature here...
There have been thirteen different directors and professors at the school, representing ten universities and colleges at home, and the school has had sixty students. These students received their first degree in thirty-one different American institutions of learning; thirty-eight of them have received higher degrees; twenty six have received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred at seven universities in America and five in Europe; forty-nine are or have been teachers, thirty with the rank of Professor in forty-two institutions of learning in the United States...
...achievements in war have indicated the leading position she is to take among the nations of the orient. An interesting addition to the knowledge of the early days of Japan's new life is given in Dr. W. E. Griffis's biographical sketch of Townsend Harris, the first American envoy to Japan. Townsend Harris was undoubtedly the greatest of the foreign diplomats sent to Japan, and his influence in the development of representative institutions there is recognized by none more than by the Japanese themselves. Dr. Griffis's book not only contains many interesting extracts from Harris's jounal, telling...
...need not fear ascendancy in Cuba of any other European nation should we neglect to aid the insurgents.- (a) Geographical position.- (b) American interests already dominant.- (c) Our repeated declarations against this: F. Snow, Amer. Dip. p. 350.- (d) Our success in the Mexican incident...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. The Materials of American History to 1783. Professor Channing. University...