Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trying to express our opinion of him in anything like original words. Public officials here and in foreign countries, newspapers all over the world, and private citizens without number have united to do him honor. His incalculable influence in the development of Harvard University in particular and of American education in general is the most noteworthy feature of a career filled with great achievements...
...operation, and it should stimulate public spirit. These quotations from President Eliot, expressing his profound faith in a democratic society trained and enlightened as he would have it, are, I think, what will strike German readers most in the articles. They are also what will most interest the American public. A short account of the official arrangements at Harvard naturally contains much that is commonplace to us here, while on the other hand it passes over many things which belong to the true inwardness of the situation and which we think essential to the life and value of the place...
Professor Kuehnemann is the first to undertake to put into book form a study of President Eliot's influence on American education...
...prestige in foreign countries is already very great, as is shown by the list of students enrolled here, but there is still much room to spread and strengthen her reputation and fame. In Europe her lecturers have been received with the greatest respect as representing the highest type of American learning; in the Far East her influence has been felt through the representatives of the Harvard Mission. China has shown her trust in American education and in this University by sending many students to Cambridge, and it seems particularly fitting for Harvard to take a part in the teaching...
Interest in the matter led us to look further into the question of mitts and gloves as used by the big teams of the present. Almost without exception we find the World's Champions, the National and American League teams, the minor leagues, semi-professional, college and amateur nines all sing mitts and gloves made by the A. J. Reach Company of Philadelphia. The name tells much, for Mr. Reach himself was one of the famous second basemen of his day, and so knows what is required in the shape of mitts and gloves...