Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...SEMINARY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. "The Methods of Instruction in Government." Professor Munro. Sever...
...SEMINARY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. "The Methods of Instruction in Government." Professor Munro. Sever...
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...would indeed be comforting to feel that your hammer-throwing specialist could at a pinch fill in creditably at baseball or hockey, or even turn a handspring upon a wager. Another serious article, by W. Lippmann, pleads for more robustness of interest, on the part of students, in American politics. By all means,--and in other matters too. "The Chinese Classics and Modern Research," by A. D. Sheffield, is closely reasoned, as it goes, but fails to make Chinese literature itself seem vital...
...Paris, from which the English, and thereby the American university took its character, a faculty was formed from the start, and young men were invited to come and attend the lectures. And so if it seems to you, as undergraduates, that the faculty has too great authority, remember that they are acting in accordance with the trend and development of the American university, and has history as a precedent...