Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee will meet this morning at 10 o'clock at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, to ratify the rules for 1906 in their re-arranged form...
...celebration is given by the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the country. It was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, for the propagation of useful knowledge. Franklin was the first secretary of the society and later became its president...
...annual Junior class dinner, which was postponed on account of the death of Dean Shaler, will be held on Tuesday evening, May 1, at 6.30 o'clock at the American House, Boston. All tickets for the first date will be good for this dinner...
Professor Shaler was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of other scientific societies. He was a most versatile writer, having published, besides a large number of scientific reports, some poetry and dramatic works, and many popular articles in the "Scientific American," "Scribner's Magazine," and similar periodicals. His most widely known works are: "The Story of our Continent": "The Interpretation of Nature"; "The Individual: Study of Life and Death"; "The Citizen: the Study of the Individual and the Government"; "The United States of America: a Study of the American Commonwealth"; "Man and the Earth"; "Elizabeth...
...Leigh R. Gregor, professor of English in McGill University of Montreal, will give a lecture at Agassiz House, tomorrow at 4.45 o'clock on "American Speech." The lecture will be open to the public...