Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot's four essays on Washington, Franklin, Channing, and Emerson, which were written for several occasions of commemoration, have just been collected and published under the title "Four American Leaders...
...following comparison of American and English athletics, with an argument in favor of the English system, is reprinted from the Harvard Bulletin...
...statue is a plaster model of a colossal figure exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. Kronos is represented with out-stretched wings, symbolic of the apparently swift flight of time, but standing on the back of a turtle, as significant of its slow progress. The face is covered with a veil, emblematic of mystery...
...western slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is situated, trips of a few months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically unexplored...
...Copeland will give his sixth reading from "The Wits and Humorists" this evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. The selections will be taken from the works of Mark Twain, representing American literature; and from Owen Seaman, editor of the English comic paper "Punch;" Barry Paine, and Jerome K. Jerome, representing English literature...