Word: americanism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...MEETING of the delegates of the National Rowing Association of American Colleges has been called. It is to be held at the Bay State House, Worcester, Mass., April 2, 1873. This convention is looked forward to with no little interest, inasmuch as several very important questions will be decided. The place where the regatta is to be held must be determined upon: probably Springfield, Mass., will be selected as the most advantageous situation; if so, this will give that place such a precedent that we can safely expect other races to be held there in the future...
...least had the opportunity of seeing the folly of utterly groundless speculation. For our own part, though changes in some particulars of our present system are eminently desirable, we are willing to give up all thought of ultra-marine emulation, and turn our efforts toward that rank among American colleges which is already ours in point of years...
...such men are few. Most of us are not particularly earnest, even in the pursuit of pleasure. By the aid of an "advanced civilization," the "culture of the nineteenth century," etc., we have, curiously enough, just reached that position of dignified indifference which the American Indian long ago attained without any such aids...
...contradiction to President Eliot's statement that the system "is characteristic of American Colleges as distinguished from European Universities," Dr. McCosh says...
...quite common in many of our American colleges to disparage the services of young men; advanced age and wide experience being considered essential qualifications to a good instructor. So strong is this feeling in some minds that one of our New England colleges, in a recent prospectus, holds out as an inducement to students the fact that it employs no tutors. In contrast with this notion, that young teachers are to be tolerated only because older ones are not to be had, it is interesting to read in President Eliot's Report these words...