Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...AMERICAN LITERATURE, by Katherine Lee Bates...
...subscribe and to urge your friends to do so. The Magazine depends on the loyalty of Harvard men for its support, and according to the extent of this support must be the measure of the Magazine's usefulness. For five years it has held a unique position among American periodical publications, and the Council earnestly believes that the younger Harvard men will not fail to increase its usefulness, when they realize that their co-operation is needed...
After receiving the Stanford estate, Stanford University will have an income three times as great as that of Harvard, the richest American University at present...
...print this morning a portion of the review of "American Contributions to Civilization and Other Essays and Addresses" by President Eliot, which appears in the last issue of the Nation. The book is published by the Century Company...
...because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator...