Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wednesday evening, March 7, Mr. Heinrich Conried of New York, director of the Metropolitan Opera House and of the Irving Place Theatre, will present the sixth annual German play for the benefit of the German Seminary Library of Yale. Clyde Fitch, the American play-wright, lectured before the University last week on the subject, "The Play and the Public." Mr. Jones, the leading English dramatist, will lecture at Yale some time in April...
...first prize of $1000, and a second prize of $500 are offered for the best essays presented by Class A, composed of all persons who have received the bachelor's degree from an American college in 1895 or thereafter. A first prize of $300, and a second prize of $150 are offered for the best essays presented by Class B, composed of persons, who, at the time the papers are submitted, are undergraduates of any American college. No one in Class A may compete in Class B, but any one in Class B may compete in Class...
...Wednesday Morning, the University received the Imperial Chinese Commission which has been inspecting the American Universities. 'The commissioners were escorted by President Hadley and members of the Faculty. During his speech of Welcome, the President announced that two scholarships had been Permanently established for Chinese students, and that ten more would be offered for four years...
...these competitions will be shot at a distance of 50 yards on standard American targets, except the rapid fire shoot, while will be contested at a distance of 15 yards...
...Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden...