Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...given by the Cosmopolitan Club in its rooms in Holyoke House this evening at 8.30 o'clock for members and invited guests. The features will be a sword drill by the German members, shuttlecock by the Chinese, and an exhibition of jiu-jitsu by the Japanese. The American part will consist in sleight-of-hand tricks. Singing of national anthems by the national groups of members will end the entertainment...
...denomination. In case either of the above conditions should be violated, or control of such services should ever fall into the hands of a single denomination, or services of the character specified should cease to be maintained at the University, the entire fund shall be paid over to the American Unitarian Association, or any successor of such Association, for the general purposes of its work...
...have seen for a long time, and does credit to the writer and to those whose enterprise furnished the material for such a description. Undoubtedly the position formerly held by classical studies and literature is now coming to be held by the political and social sciences in all our American universities. The "new humanities," as these studies are coming to be called, concern themselves, as did the old humanities with the strivings of the human spirit, but with its strivings after justice rather than beauty. That Harvard students are awake to these interests, as well as to the problems...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Giaciation in the Catskill Mountains." Mr. H. E. Merwin. "The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan-American) in Santiago, Chili." Professor Woodworth. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...Tower is the author of "The Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution." He is a member of a number of learned societies, and holds the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow...