Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shoot for pocket revolvers will be held by the Rifle and Pistol Club, beginning tonight at 7.30, in the baseball cage; and continuing on Thursday nights until Thursday, December 14. The shooting will be at a range of fifteen yards on standard American targets, length of revolver barrel not to exceed four and one-quarter inches. A prize is offered for the best score in fifty shots...
...editors of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology are to have the right to publish the thesis of the successful candidate. The incumbent of the fellowship must agree to pursue his studies for the year of his incumbency at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens...
...North American Review--"English Idiosyncrasies," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "A Pension Fund for College Professors." by C. F. Thwing...
...English game is played with fifteen men on a side and differs from the Canadian game, which is played with twelve men on a side, and which, like American football, has developed from the English game. English rugby football is furthermore entirely different from the association game, which was last year taken up in the University. It is an open game in which interference like that in American football is unknown, and in which there is no body checking. Players are not allowed to touch opponents with their hands, except in tackling the man with the ball. The ball...
...Pilgrims, Purchas, Vol. 5-8. Weihe, Chamiso, 2, vols. Annual Register, 1904. Life of Reason, Santayana, vols. 3 and 4. Essentials in American History, Hart. Actual Government, Hart. Renan, Barry. Mount Desert, a history, Street. The Philippine Islands, Atkinson. A Southern Girl in '61, Wright. The Ancient Grudge, Pier. Knock at a Venture, Phillpotts. Autobiography, Andrew White. Russia and its Crisis, Milyoukov McAllister and his Double, Train. The Garden of Allah, Hichens. The Irrational Knot, Shaw. The House of Mirth, Wharton. My Friend the Chauffeur, Williamson. The Divine Fire, Sinclair, Iole, Chambers. The Appreciation of Pictures, Sturgis. The Ways...