Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shape for the race. The crews will start from the Longwood Bridge at 2 o'clock Saturday, and row over the mile and seven-eighths course to a point opposite Otter street. The members of the winning class crew will receive their numerals, and will be sent to the American Henley Regatta...
...private dormitories are refining influences, and although a poor man may work his way through College, he is thought none the less a man. The craze for being the social equals of wealthy men, in contrast to Europe, does not exist among the poorer men in the American University...
Athletics hold a prominent place, and although their intense worship is an abuse, it is much better than the dissipation of continental university students, and provides a great disciplinary force for American men. Although less scholarly than their European contemporaries, American students are better fitted for life, and in every one of them is a desire to make America great, which makes American universities not only establishments of advanced learning, but centres for the inculcation of the national spirit...
...Sheldon '08, President of the Dramatic Cub, has written a play which has been accepted by Mrs. Fiske as one of her productions for next year. The pay, which is a drama of modern American life, will be produced by Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan Company at the Belasco Theatre about the middle of September. The title and subject are withheld until the time of production...
...annual dinner for the third year class in the Law School will be held tomorrow evening at 6.30 o'clock in the American House, Boston. Several of the members of the Law School Faculty will be present, and will probably speak. H. S. Deming, W. Field, J. H. Iglehart and J. C. Monnet of the class will also be called upon to speak...