Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American Historical Association will hold its fifteenth annual meeting in Boston and Cambridge on December 27, 28, and 29. The society is closely connected with the University, since many Harvard men are on its list of presidents and executive councils...
Professor Strobel commented on the diplomatic and consular system of the United States and showed wherein these systems were related to civil service. Professor Macvane spoke on civil service in England, showing the advantages of the English over the American system. Germany and England have, at present, the most fully developed civil service system in the world...
...Professor Greenough; "The Mouthpiece of the Flute," by Professor Howard; "The Ionic Capitals in Asia Minor," by Dr. W. N. Bates '90, instructor in the classical department of the University of Pennsylvania; "The Symbolism of the Apple in Classical Antiquity," by Doctor B. O. Foster, now at the American School of Classical Studies at Rome; "Greek Shoes in the Classical Period," by A. A. Bryant 3G.; "The Attic Prometheus," by Professor Gulie; "The Myth of Daphnis," by H. W. Prescott; and "Some Studies in Greek Religion," by Professor Greenough...
...Peters, one of the few great American explorers who have worked among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...Graduates' Magazine contains a table showing the registration at the ten leading American universities. The total registration is as follows: Harvard 5250, Michigan 3346, Columbia 3083, Yale 2688, Pennsylvania 2651, Cornell 2645, Wisconsin 2025, Chicago 1680, Princeton 1194, Johns Hopkins 632. The increase over the registration of last year at Columbia is 246, at Michigan 242, Cornell 203, Harvard 199, Wisconsin 199, Princeton 95, Chicago 32, and Johns Hopkins 5. Yale has 20 students less than last year and Pennsylvania 78 less...