Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Theodore Cox of the University of New York, president of the American Republican College League, has appointed Charles T. Tatman L. S., a member of the national executive committee and of the sub-executive committee of the league. He has also appointed L. W. Mott '96 Department Chairman for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
...affairs, Dr. Lawrence of Cambridge has written a letter to the senate of the university in which he shows what excellent facilities the university has for carrying on graduate work, and in which he expresses the belief that, if such work was started, a large proportion of the American students who now complete their training in German universities would be attracted. Dr. Lawrence favors the introduction of a new degree, such as the Doctorate of Philosophy...
...Catholic church has for years past been growing more and more a part of our American polity and the question which arises is what we are to do with it. This close proximity of the Catholic church surprises, even displeases some, and yet the church is constantly becoming acclimated to the United States...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...