Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...task on which President Lowell officially enters today is to be of vital interest to Harvard, and through Harvard to the educational world. American colleges and universities are in the swing of a great movement which is bringing them increase in numbers, in wealth, and in power. It is given to the president of this University to be one of those who direct this movement, and to guide it wisely is a work than which none is more important...
Edward Parmelee Morris, a delegate from Yale, our next of kin among American universities; a leader in her academic counsels; a master of early Latin, and of the significance of the Roman tongue; a classical scholar, learned and original...
Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, an institution whose services are writ large in the annals of American education; himself a teacher of teachers, to whom the country owes a lasting debt for the Teachers' College...
Frederick Jackson Turner, a delegate from the University of Wisconsin; a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
Edmund Janes James, President of the University of Illinois, under whose inspiring touch it has risen to the front rank among American universities...