Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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History--Three courses: Roman history; mediaeval European history; American history...
...Woodruff was president of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association from 1902 to 1904, secretary of the American League for Civic Improvement in 1903-04, and has been secretary of the National Municipal League since...
Tonight at 8 o'clock, there will be a lecture in the Living Room of the Union by Nicholas W. Tchaykovsky and Alexis Aladyin, alded by Mr. Kellog Durland, a well-known American journalist. The object of the lecture is to discourage further financial aid to the Russian government...
...current number of the Monthly opens with a vigorous article by Alexander Forbes '04 on one aspect of the ever-present athletic question. The writer's main point is that, in abandoning the English attitude of "sport for sport's sake," American college athletes have not degraded but have elevated athletics, turning them to a moral discipline which study or mere play fails to afford. He is remarkably candid in admitting the moral evils in the present condition of football; but his argument fails to convince the reviewer mainly because it ignores the contrast between the widespread demoralization caused...
...spoke first of the government of Mt. Desert, Maine, in the eighties, which was almost entirely self-supporting, and its perfection, on account of the really local character of its interests. Some thirty years ago, a great change took place in American life. The population gradually drew into large units, whose interests were everywhere. With this, there was a further complication; namely, that the burden of taxation was badly distributed, as the wealthier classes lived in adjacent towns, leaving the poorer householders of the city to bear the major burden of its taxes. The movement for remedying this state...