Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Woodbury, of the American Bell Telephone Company, will address the first meeting of the Engineering Society on Monday at 8 o'clock in Peirce Hall. A large number of stereopticon views will be shown, illustrating Mr. Woodbury's practical experience in telephone line engineering. The lecture is open to all members of the University...
...Professor F. G. Peabody, who, at the request of the Emperor is lecturing in Germany in exchange for Professor Ostwald, will be given at Berlin on October 30. The date has been postponed in order that the Emperor may himself be present. The subject of the lecture is, "American Reciprocity." The other lectures have not yet been announced...
Professor Kuhnemann is Rector of the Royal Prussian Academy at Posen, Germany, that is to say, he occupies a position similar to that of an American university president. He is the author of the most significant complete biography of Schiller, and his reputation as an inspiring orator has been confirmed by people who have heard him speak in New York, Chicago and other large cities of this country...
...prize of $40 is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. This prize is open only to members of the Senior class of Harvard College and to special students in their third or fourth year who have taken courses in political science and English literature. Essays must be handed...
...five years has been in charge of the physical training department at the New York State Normal School at Geneseo, N. Y. Previously he occupied a position for four-years assistant instructor of gymnastics at the Pennsylvania State Normal School at West Chester, Pa., and served in the Spanish-American...