Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen." In "The Making of an American," Mr. Riis gives an autobiographical sketch...
...last year's substitutes. The burden of the pitching will probably fall upon Meyer and Parsons, who should be very effective this year with the added experience of last season. An unusually hard schedule has been arranged quite different from former ones. William Lush, formerly with the Cleveland American League team, will coach...
...American Nation: A History;" vol. 20, "The Appeal to Arms," by J. K. Hosmer...
...poems it is pleasant and appropriate that the first in the number should be a sonnet to William Vaughn Moody '93, who bids fair to take very high, if not first rank among American poets--and, as an editorial suggests, among American dramatists also. It is noteworthy also that this sonnet should be the work of Percy Mackaye '97, who delighted all of us who heard the play with his strong musical verse in "Jeanne d'Arc." "Villanelle," by W. H. Wright Sp., and "The Descent of Istar into Hades" by J. H. Wheelock '08 enshrine some of the tricks...
...closing his report, Professor Putnam speaks of the generous gift received by him as a testimonial from President M. K. Jessup of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This gift, a typical collection of material to illustrate the life of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, Professor Putnam has presented to the Peabody Museum...