Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yesterday's meeting of the Corporation it was voted to guarantee the price of board at Memorial Hall during February and March at $5 a week. This applies only to members under the American plan, and does not include extras paid for in coupons...
...first month of the new American plan seems to have been fairly successful. At present the membership has naturally fallen off slightly because of the mid-years, but before that there was a decided increase in numbers. The members seem to be satisfied with the new system and it will probably be continued indefinitely. It is a pity that this institution which could be made to fill a pleasant and important place in College life should be in such straits as in the past few months. And we sincerely trust that things have been put on a sound basis...
Other interesting objects are an early English hornbook, and an American hornbook found in New Jersey, one of three known specimens with a battledore and some early English primers. There is also the only known copy of Lilley's Latin Grammar, and a unique handbook of penmanship issued...
...Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; he was a member of the committee of the Classical Department which brought out the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus in the Stadium in June, 1906; served with Professors Norton and White and Francis Bacon in bringing out the work now being published describing the American excavations at Assos in the Troad; and is a member of the executive committee of the Archaeological Institute of America, before which he recently delivered an address on Professor Charles Eliot Norton, the founder of the Institute...
President Eliot will address the Aesculapian Club, an association of graduates of the Medical School, on "The Coming Change in the Medical Profession," at a dinner to be held at the American House this evening at 8.30 o'clock...