Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...North American Review--"Shakespeare against his Critics," by I. Corbin...
...possibly third crews will be organized which will row in the Beacon Cup Regatta for the class championship. The first upperclass crew to finish will be awarded class numerals, whether the Freshmen win or not. There is also a possibility that the winning class crew will row in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, and that a race on the Charles with some outside crew will be arranged for the class crew finishing second in the Beacon Cup Regatta. Furthermore, graded Weld and Newell crews will probably be organized after the class crew races to race for club insignia...
Professor T. W. Richards '86, who is going to Berlin as Harvard's representative in the annual exchange of professors, will sail from New York on March 9 by the Hamburg-American line...
...have met this evening to pay tribute to a man who had, among all American authors of his time, the most individual and disarming combination of qualities. He was at once genial and guarded,--kind and cordial in greeting, but with an impassable boundary line of reserve:--dwelling in a charmed circle of thought, yet absolutely self protecting; essentially a poetic mind, but never out of touch with the common heart:--yet not so much a creator as a composer; and viewing his themes, as a very acute observer has said of him, 'in their relations, rather than in their...
...editor of one of the great London weeklies said to an American traveller a few years ago: 'A stranger can hardly have an idea of how familiar many of our working people, especially women, are with Longfellow. Thousands can repeat some of his poems who have never read a line of Tennyson and probably never heard of Browning...