Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Delegates from the graduate clubs of various American colleges met in their first convention at the Buckingham Hotel New York, last Monday to discuss matters affecting the interests of graduate students. Henry A. Cushing of Columbia College was made president...
...appointed Silliman professor of natural history and geology, at Yale, in 1850, and entered on the administration of the chair in 1855. Professor Dana became, about 1850, associate editor of the American Journal of Science and Arts, founded by the elder Silliman in 1819. Subsequent to the death of Professor Silliman he became its senior editor...
...English system of connecting the executive and the legislative branches of government preferable to the American system of keeping them distinct...
...Harry Gilfoil, the famous whistling soloist, who takes the part of the waiter, and George Richards, who will be seen in the character of Ben Gay. Other members of the company are Effie Atherton Par, Sadie Kirby, Margarel MacDonald, Cora Tinny, Julius Whitmark, Richard Carl, and the peerless little American dancer, Bessie Clayton. The musical numbers, which form a strong feature in all of Hoyt's comedies, are new this season, and embrace the following variety of selections: "Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds," "Grandma's Advice," "Then Say Good Bye," "She is a Daisy," "Call Me Back...
...University Glee Club of New York" is the subject of an article in the March number of the American University Magazine. The club was incorporated in 1894, the President of the Columbia Glee Club being elected President. The membership is limited to sixty active members, who are either college graduates or students of at least one year and members of their college organizations. Of the present active members sixteen are Columbia men, ten Princeton, nine Yale, three Harvard, three Amherst and the balance from other well-known colleges. Among the associate members are President Low, Frederic R. Coudert, Julien...