Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball game scheduled with Bates for yesterday was cancelled early in the afternoon, owing to the softness of the regular diamond and the high wind. Most of the first team accompanied the Bates squad to the American League game on Huntington avenue. All the men were given a much needed lay-off after the hard week's work in the South in the hope of getting them in first class condition for the Dartmouth game on Saturday...
Professor Cary will discuss, the prospects of forestry both in respect to the public work and also in the management of private woods. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views from photographs taken by Professor Cary in his studies in German and American forests. In 1896 he studied the methods of raising, reproducing and handling the timber lands in the German forests, for about four months, and later was engaged in the same work in Maine in the employ of lumber firms...
...first prize of $1000 and a second prize of $500 in cash are offered for the best studies presented by Class A, composed exclusively of all persons who have received the bachelor's degree from an American college in 1896, or thereafter; and a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $150 in cash are offered for the best studies presented by Class B, composed of persons who, at the time the papers are sent in, are undergraduates of an American college. No one in Class A may compete in Class B, but any one in Class...
...Masterpiece Library of Penny Poets, Novels and Prose Classics." Among his writings are "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," "The Truth about Russia," "The Labor War in the United States," and "The Conference at the Hague." Possibly his best known literary achievement has been his founding the English, American and Australasian editions of the "Review of Reviews...
...Geology; E. R. Markham, Shop-work; M. Mower, Fine Arts; C. Peabody '90, European Archaeology; A. S. Pease '02, Greek and Latin; C. R. Post '04, Romance Languages; A. T. Safford, Hydraulics; E. I. Shepard, Mathematics; C. L. Thorndike, Mechanical Drawing and Descriptive Geometry; A. M. Touzzer; Central American Archaeology; C. W. Watkeys, Mathematics; A. F. Whittem '02, Romance Languages; E. H. Wilkins, Romance Languages; B. G. Willard, Public Speaking...