Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brides '09 M.S., right tackle, has been at a disadvantage owing to his being shifted from halfback. He is a natural lineman, however, and would have been a sure choice for an All-American guard last year had the coaches not transferred him from the line. He is especially good at diagnosing plays and is a dangerous man to direct an attack against...
Professor Charles Zueblin, of the University of Chicago, will give a study course of 18 lectures on "The American Municipality" at 6 Marlborough street, Boston, on Wednesdays, beginning tomorrow and continuing to March 21. The subject of tomorrow's lecture will be "The New Civil Spirit." This course is designed to give a comprehensive survey of the functions and activities of the American city by means of lectures, discussions, and visits to public institutions...
...collection is remarkable for its specimens of early printing, early illustrated books, and original editions of literary works. There are also books on exhibition presented to Professor Norton's father by Mrs. Hemans, Miss Edgeworth, and Joanna Baillie, as well as early American imprints, which have never passed from hand to hand by sale. John Donne's works are represented by a remarkable collection, including four manuscripts and the early editions of his poetry and prose...
...clock. Seats on the floor will be reserved until 7.25 o'clock for members of the University and friends accompanying them. The gallery will be open to the public at 7 o'clock. Dr. Eliot is the son of President Eliot, and is president of the American Unitarian Association. He will conduct morning prayers from November 16 to November...
...woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors intolerable. There is one parlor story, "Cupid...