Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Instructors from about twenty universities and colleges have cooperated in one or another of the phases of the undertaking including nearly all the best known of American educational institutions. Dr. James gives great credit to the present secretary of the society, Edward T. Devine, whom he speaks of as a man of great educational experience and insight and absolute devotion to the cause...
Seminary course in American literature, offered by Miss Katharine Lee Bates. The object of the course is to discuss the achievement of this first century of American literature and to inquire closely into the present value and promise of a literary output in the various sections of the country...
...partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there is no first-rate character for any one player. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the first valid record of any performance of "The Two Gentlemen" comes so late as the year 1762. The first American rendering was given in New York by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the year 1846. Forty years later in March, 1886, Madame Modjeska and a competent company gave the play in Boston, and that was the first and only Boston performance until Mr. Daly's revival. With the clear...
...which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...
Thrall, the mile walker, has broken the the collegiate record of 7 min. 6 sec., and the fact that the American champion, Liebgold, has entered in the games next week will give Thrall a chance to show his best work. Thrall is backed to win the walk in the Harvard-Yale and intercollegiate games this year...