Word: americanisms
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Professor F. W. Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology in his annual report to the President of the University enumerates numerous accessions which have been made to the Museum during the past year. As in former years, the collections representing the life and customs of the North American Indians have been greatly increased in value and interest by the gifts of Mr. L. H. Farlow...
Professor D. C. Lyon, Ph.D., who has been granted leave of absence for next year by the Corporation, will fill the position of director of the American School for Oriental Study and Research in Palestine during his year away. Since coming to the University in 1882, Professor Lyon has held a professorship in divinity, but his work has been exclusively relating to Semitic languages and history. He has been curator of the Semitic Museum since its foundation in 1890, and while travelling in Egypt and Palestine during the winter of 1901-02 he acquired many of the objects...
Such then is true democracy, and as such do we find it inconsistent with true reverence? It is argued that American children are not respectful junior reverent towards their parents, because of the democratic custom, now in vogue among parents, of suggesting what is to be done, not ordering. The true criterion of reverence is the attitude in later years. Never before were aged parents treated with so great kindness as today. Is this inconsistent with true democracy. The same relation between teacher and pupil has brought about far greater reverence than the old dictatory attitude...
History--Greek history. Modern European history. American history. English history...
English--Elementary composition. Advanced composition. Second advanced composition. College admission requirements in English. Anglo-Saxon. Shakespere. English literature of the 18th century. English and American biography. Literary history of America...