Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eighth annual conference of the Association of American Universities will be held in Phillips Brooks House on November 23 and 24. President Eliot and Professor C. H. Haskins will represent the University. The following universities are members of the Association. University of California, catholic University of America, University of Chicago, Clark University, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Jr., University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Yale...
...Rivers. There has been no previous expedition of this sort from America, and the only work done in this region has been by the Germans. In an ethnological way the region is practically unexplored, and will be of the greatest importance in advancing scientific knowledge of the primitive South American peoples...
...plaster cast of the figure of Chronos, designed by F. E. Elwell and exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, has been presented to the Union by S. B. Elwell '10 and A. F. Elwell '10. The figure, which will be received in three or four weeks, will probably be placed on the wall over the stairway leading from the main hall of the Union to the second floor...
...which Rev. Herbert S. Johnson '91 will speak on the movement for reform in the administration of the Independent State of the Congo. Mr. Johnson, who is president of the Congo Reform Association recently organized in Boston, is devoting his means and time to the cause of informing the American people of the abuses and cruelties practiced in the Congo country under the government of Leopold II of Belgium. The regular Thursday evening meeting of the Christian Association will be combined with this meeting which will be open to all members of the University...
Professor E. C. Moore has received leave of absence for the second half-year to visit China as representative of the China Mission of the American Board. He intends to leave for the East about the first of February and will not return until the beginning of the next academic year. Professor Moore will visit the schools and missions throughout a large part of China, and will reach Shanghai in time for an important convention. Dr. Barton, the chief secretary of the American Board, and Dr. Warner of New York will also be in the party...