Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great enjoyment afforded them. The work shown was generally most attractive, even to such as were not competent to judge of its technical excellence. The slides to be shown this evening should prove of more than ordinary interest since they will give a chance to compare the best American work, as shown in the preceding sets of slides, with the best of the French...
...most significant fact in regard to Dr. Holmes's death is that it ends an important epoch in the history of American literature. Dr. Holmes was the last of the remarkable group who have represented the best that there is in the prose and poetry of New England, and whose works will have a lasting value, - Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whittier and Holmes. To these writers there is now no worthy successor. With the death of Dr. Holmes the period of New England's literary preeminence comes to a close...
SEMINARY of American History and Institutions in U. 20 on Monday at 3.30. Mr. Justin Winsor will speak on "The Mississippi Valley in 1700 as a field for the coming struggle of the French and English...
HALL & HANCOCK of 407 Washington street, Boston, will have on sale at J. W. Brine's, all their leading styles of English and American derbies; prices...
...much barbarians as gentlemen, and the result has been that in the welcome to freshmen, more emphasis is being laid on the gentlemanly side of their nature and less on the barbaric. And in expressions of such a sentiment Harvard is bound to be in the lead. No other American university is so characterized by gentlemanliness, and the rush is harshly discordant with the Harvard tone. Not only the Faculty, but the great body of students also are strongly in favor of letting a dead past bury its dead...