Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best dissertation on a subject connected with universal peace and the methods by which war may be permanently superseded, is offered to any student of the University in any of its departments. The Bennett prize of $40 for the best essay in English prose on a subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest, is open only to Seniors in the College and to Special Students in their third or fourth year, who have taken courses in political science and English literature...
...well attended meeting of the Freshman class last night, it was unanimously voted to hold the class dinner at the American House. In order to hold the dinner there, it will be necessary to sign a bond for $500, which will be deposited with the hotel management and forfeited if $25 damage occurs...
Professor F. W. Putnam '62, curator of the Peabody Museum, has recently received word from Dr. W. C. Farabee '00, head of the Peabody Museum South American Ethnological Expedition, which started December 17, 1906, of their safe arrival at Arequipa, Peru, where the Harvard Observatory is situated...
...Minister of Foreign Affairs, extended courtesies to the party and they were given the freedom of the port. The expedition will make their headquarters at Arequipa, from which place they will make excursions of several months' duration in order to study the manners and customs of the South American Indians of that region...
...here given to the importance of intercollegiate sport in maintaining the influence and reputation of the University seems to the reviewer only another proof of the charge that athletics are viewed by many students in a totally false perspective. A. H. Elder describes the growth of lacrosse in the American colleges, and makes a plea for its further development. A sonnet, "Notre Dame de Paris," is smoothly written, and the octave has some excellent lines...