Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...college are to be given by different men on Tuesday evenings in the Living Room of the Union on the following dates. On April 11, Mr. J. G. Milburn of New York, recently a member of the law firm of Rogers, Locke & Milburn, in 1901 president of the Pan-American Exposition, and well known as an able lawyer, will speak on "Law"; on April 25, Dr. J. C. Warren '63 of Boston, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, Professor of Surgery in the University from 1887 to 1893, editor and part author of "The International Text Book...
...American Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, founded in 1894, was incorporated by act of Congress the first of this month. At a dinner given by the trustees of the Academy to the incorporators last Saturday, it was announced that $600,000 has already been contributed to the endowment fund by friends in Europe, and that $400,000 is expected from the United States. Major H. L. Higginson h.'91 contributed $100,000 on behalf of the University, and President Eliot, C. F. Adams '56 and Professor F. L. Olmsted '94 are named among the incorporators...
...excellent work in this event. E. Farley '07 won the 100-yard dash by two yards. The 50-yard dash was won by S. P. Johnson of Yale by about two yards. The plunge for distance was won by G. P. Cooke of Yale, who equalled the American record of 68 feet. In the water-polo game the Harvard team was outclassed...
Tulin, in closing the direct debate, said: My colleagues have shown you the marked tendency in American colleges to shun the free elective system, which has proved so unsatisfactory at Harvard, not withstanding its restriction by many limitations. When a few weeks ago the Harvard Faculty instituted a new degree--an A.B. with distinction--which requires that a student shall pursue his courses in a single department under the supervision of the Faculty, they stamped work done under special direction as of higher value than unrestricted study. What more eloquent testimony than this illustrates the tendency away from the free...
...experience in education know what is best for the undergraduate, and these men have given their opinion against free election. To show that the system of free election is not to be recommended we have pointed out that it is a revolutionary experiment in education, that the tendency in American colleges is away from free election of courses, and that the system has already worked evils...