Word: americanisms
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...fare and one-third, on the certificate plan, have been secured from the Trunk Line Association, the New England Passenger Association. The Central Passenger Association and the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association. In applying for certificates from ticket agents, mention the Archaelogical Institute of America instead of the American Folk-Lore Society. In consulting time tables it should be remembered that East Ithaca is the Ithaca station of the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Le high Valley Railroad. Cars meet all trains at this station, and all cars pass the hotels...
...Olympic games will be held in Athens in April, 1906, and already many athletes from Europe as well as America have announced their intention of taking part. President Roosevelt has promised to do whatever he can to encourage the presence of American athletes...
...addition to the list of papers to be announced later, the program will include: 1. Meeting of the Council of The American Folk-Lore Society. Time and place to be hereafter communicated. 2. Address of welcome by President Schurman on Wednesday at 8 P. M. followed by a reception at his residence on the campus. 3. Joint meeting of the societies on Thursday at 3 P. M. with addresses by Hon. Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, and by two members from each society. 4. Meeting of the Committee on the Preservation of the Ruins of American Antiquity...
...Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is President of the Olympic Games Association, has expressed the wish that every effort should be made to bring the American universities to send representatives, and especially Harvard, as the Greeks recognize that University as the oldest and most important in the United States and thinks that, if she should take the lead, other universities would follow the example and send representatives to Athens...
Further information may be obtained from Charles Wilson '97, American Charge d'Affairs, Legation, Athens, Greece...