Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...JUST out, an Edition de Luxe of Kipling." Thistle Ed. of Stevenson, Sabine Edition of Eugene Field, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.'s new and beautiful Edition of the American Authors, Lowell, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier and Longfellow, 350 steel eng. on Japan paper, Vilon Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated) very rare; or any of the Standard Ed. in superior bindings, Victor Hugo, Bulwer, Dickens, Dumas, Thackeray, Waverly and Irving. The whole set delivered at once and payments of $1 or $2 per mo. entirely satisfactory. X CRIMSON office...
...That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument to say that former classes have seen nothing wrong...
Seminary of American History and Institutions. Colonial Riots. Mr. D. M. Matteson. University...
...Atlantic Monthly for February is published a study by President Eliot on American liquor laws. In 1893 about fifty men were writing in co-operation on various sociological topics and undertook a detailed study of the liquor problem. The work was divided between four committees. The legislative committee was composed of President Eliot, James C. Carter of the Board of Overseers and President Seth Low of Columbia...
...Monday.Seminary of American History and Institutions. Colonial Riots. Mr. D. M. Matteson. University...