Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages which have resulted from the gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional...
...American pilgrimage which is to be made along the line of Washington's itinerary from Philadelphia to Boston and return, and up the Hudson as far as West Point, is an outgrowth of the series of historical excursions which were a unique feature of the University Extension summer meeting, held in Philadelphia last July, under the auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. Independence Hall, the battlefield of the Brandywine, Germantown and Valley Forge were visited and historic addresses delivered...
...Ordinances of Secession and Other Documents, 1860-1861," edited by D. F. Houston, G., has appeared in teh American History Leaflet series...
Seminary of American Factory and Institutions. Land Systems of the English Colonies. Mr. P. L. Horne. University...
April 9. Contemporary English and American Novelists...