Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Pan-American Congress at Santiago de Chile in 1908." Mr. T. Barbour. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...Little Singer" Mr. E. S. Lewis expresses himself with great ease and modesty; his last two lines are particularly pleasing. Mr. R. A. Morton writes of the Boylston street bridge, using fact, imagination, and a photograph. The style is somewhat journalese. Mr. Fang Shik Chien writes on "The American Football in the Eye of an Oriental." When the football first came into his eye, Mr. Chien says, he disliked it, but now he appreciates it as the leading college activity and he is an enthusiast on the subject. Mr. Fish writes briefly on The Varsity; Mr. R. H. Smith...
...first vice-president of the American Historical Society, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Illinois Historical Society. He has also been in great demand as a lecturer, and has given Phi Beta Kappa or similar addresses at the Universities of Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana, and other institutions...
...University Library has received, as a gift from Professor A. C. Coolidge '86 and C. L. Day '08, a collection of some 4,000 books, chiefly on Spanish America, which formed the American portion of the library of Senor Luis Montt, of Santiago, Chile. It was purchased by Professor Coolidge at the time of the Pan-American Scientific Congress last winter...
This program, beginning the third year of a four-year course of classical and modern chamber music, is part of a series arranged by a number of persons interested in musical education, who feel that American universities do not afford sufficient opportunities for developing the musical taste of those of their members who are not especially devoted to musical studies. In order, therefore, to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty, they have united in framing the following proposals...