Word: americanisms
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...Olympic games will be held at Athens, beginning on April 22 and extending through May 2. The purely athletic events, in which the Americans are especially interested and in which the American team will compete, are scheduled to take place on April 28, 29, and 30. The Marathon run, which is decidedly the most important event for the Greeks, will come probably on April 28. The date of sailing from New York has been changed from March 31 to April 3, and in case of delay, arrangements have been made to take the team from Naples to Piraeus...
...American Team and Entries...
Professor Hugo Munsterberg will lecture at Yale University this afternoon on "Science and Idealism." This is the last of the series of Harvard lectures at Yale for this year. President Eliot gave the first of these lectures on "Resemblances and Differences among American Universities," on November 13. Professor G. H. Palmer '64 also delivered a series of seven lectures on "Some Aspects of Ethics...
...during that time repeatedly proposed alternations in the banking laws that would make currency more elastic and better able to respond to the periodic fluctuations and sudden emergencies in the money market. Mr. Gage has also been president of the largest bank in Chicago, three times president of the American Bankers' Association, and is now president of the United States Trust Company in New York...
Professor Peirce was a Fellow of the American Academy and was well known as an author of books on mathematical subjects, among which the following are the most important: "Text Book of Analytic Geometry,"Three and Four Place Tables," "Elements of Logarithms," "Mathematical Tables Chiefly to Four Figures...