Word: americanisms
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...Lane has recently edited a catalogue of the Bibliographical Contributions in the College Library including the American and English Chap-books and Broadside Ballads. This is the first catalogue of these pamphlets, amounting to about 3,000 including duplicates, which has ever been published. These Chap-books are interesting because they cover a wide range of subjects; they preserve a record of many details of manners and customs, superstitions and prejudices; they reflect the popular point of view in ways that might otherwise disappear; and they transmit to us a host of romances, songs, jests, and anecdotes in the form...
Some time ago the Museum acquired the Syriac manuscripts from the library of the late Professor Isaac Hall of New York. Professor Hall was probably the best-known American scholar in Syriac...
...American Psychological and Philosophical Associations will meet in Cambridge, at the invitation of the department of philosophy, on December 27, 28, and 29. Emerson Hall will be opened in time for their use. At these meetings papers will be read, and the latest theories of philosophical research discussed. In order that the members of the Association may not have to come in and out from Boston to the meetings, it is greatly desired that men who have dormitory rooms, and are not occupying them at the time of the meeting, will allow them to be used by members...
President Eliot spoke on "Resemblances and Differences among American Universities" last Monday evening at Yale in Woolsey Hall. He said, that although there are diversities among American universities and State institutions, the tendency toward the same constitution is strong. In administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard College, originally created by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1642. The tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein...
...promoting good relations between the Universities. The Yale Corporation decided to use the fund in Securing from time to time lectures and instruction at Yale from men connected with Harvard University. The first lecture was given by President Eliot himself Monday evening on "Resemblances and Differences among the American Universities...