Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Eight fellowships in Classical Research at Rome and Athens, open to graduates of American universities and to other American students of suitable attainments, will be awarded for the year 1906-07 as follows...
...farewell dinner at the Colonial Club Professor Ostwald expressed his gratitude for the friendly reception he had received and spoke especially of the receptiveness of American students for new ideas and their eagerness to follow them out. In reply, President Eliot thanked Professor Ostwald for his work here and dwelt upon the intellectual debt which America owes to Germany. The other speakers were Professor Shaler, Professor Francke, Professor Royce, Professor Munsterberg, Professor Goodwin, Professor Hall and A. A. Noyes of the institute of Technology...
...Professor Ostwald delivered in December, the Ingersoll Lecture on "Individuality and Immortality." He also gave a course of six lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a course of four lectures at the Lowell Institute on the physical chemistry of painting. Besides he read a paper before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of which he was elected an honorary member, and spoke at three meetings of the Physico-Chemical Club of the University...
...last year by the gift of $10,000 from an anonymous Harvard graduate, for the purpose of securing members of the Harvard Faculty to give lectures at Yale. The first of these lectures was delivered by President Eliot, on November 13, on the subject. "Resemblances and Differences Among the American Universities...
From the Belgian Government has been received the collection which was exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition to illustrate the different periods of prehistoric time in Belgium. The income of the Huntington-Frothingham-Wolcott Fund has been used in purchasing various objects and small collections, principally of North American and Polynesian ethnology; and the income of the Susan D. Warren Fund has been used in purchasing cases for the Indian Gallery. Many relics have been received from Dr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. C. P. Bowditch, Dr. L. C. Jones of Malden, Miss Mary L. Ware of Boston and many other people...