Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Commercial Education in American Universities." Mr. F. V. Thompson. University...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Commercial Education in American Universities." Mr. F. V. Thompson. University...
...University Library has lately received from the Russian Government, through the hands of the Hon. G. von L. Meyer '79, American Ambassador to Russia, the publications of the first general census of Russia. The census was taken in 1897. The statistics of the railways of Russia for 1904 were included in the gift...
...wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...
...sailed from San Francisco for Shanghai on January 8 accompanied by Mr. J. E. Thayer '85, who is to collect birds, mammals, and reptiles of central and western China, which are now very imperfectly represented in American and European museums. They will proceed at once to Ichang and the gorges of the Yangtse which will be their permanent base or this year. In 1908 they will travel northward to the boundaries of Thibet and China, whence Mr. Wilson expects to return to Boston...