Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cast, which includes many who have taken part in former Pi Eta plays, is as follows: Count de Fitta, an American counterfeiter disguised as a Frenchman, C. P. Whorf '05 Officer Keene, of the U. S. Secret Service, disguised as "Skiddles," on the trail of the counterfeiter, H. W. Crosby '05 Mr. Tripp, an American millionaire, R. Olmstead '05 Jessie, Tessie and Bessie, Tripp's daughters, D. P. Cook '05, S. Webb '06 and J. Benbow '07. Filette, their maid, M. H. Green '05 Lord Coldstream, an Englishman in need of money, E. H. Baker '06 Admiral Bowser...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night it was voted to allow the University crew management to send a four-oared crew to the American Henley Regatta at Philadephia on May 27. An appropriation for moving the trophies from the Trophy Room in the Gymnasium to the Union was also voted. it was decided that on and after May 1. 1905 no man be allowed to go to a training table for more than a week unless he has filed a bond with sufficient sureties with the graduate treasurer shall estimate to cover his bill. Also that the price...
...Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, delivered an address last night in the Living Room of the Union on "Public Speaking in Politics." Mr. Guild began by outlining the essential qualities of a public speaker. It is a current belief, he said, that in the field of American politics public speaking has been wholly supplanted by the newspapers. It is indeed true that at present the press, especially since it is entirely independent. and to a great extent a substitute for the old time orator and political mountebank, does exert a tremendous influence. Yet the public will always...
SEMINARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS. "The Retention of the Northwestern Posts," Mr.C.W. Gayman. Sever...
Plans for the international chess meet are now being drawn up in New York by a committee of graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Four boards will probably be played so that each of the American universities may have an equal number of representatives. The American team will play at the rooms of the German Chess Club, New York. The dates have not yet been definitely decided upon but will very probably be Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April...