Word: americanisms
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...other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator of public characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies in his ability to reconstruct past times and public sentiment. Professor Rhodes's lecture tonight on "Edward Gibbon" should be especially interesting inasmuch as it is the study...
...Indeed, what was not enough to draw the public in the very competent hands of Miss Kalisch would have been ludicrous if Miss Marlowe had acted it-and would probably have drawn a little better. But if we are brave enough and perhaps optimistic enough to admit that an American can write good verse, "Sappho and Phaon" will stand on many a book shelf and will be read as one reads Stephen Phillips. Indeed, there is more reason why it should be read. The verse has often more strength and is often equally lyrical. Many of the passages which would...
...program of the class crews has been somewhat hindered this week by the cold weather; but fair improvement has been shown in most of the boats. The definite announcement that the winning class crew will be sent to the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on May 23 has added considerably to the interest taken in the work...
...institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor of the "Christian Union" with Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Abbott is at present editor...
History and Government.--*Ancient Greek History; *Ancient Roman History; *European History from A.D. 800 to 1648; *American History from A.D. 1763 to 1829; *Civil Government; *Municipal Government. Professors W. MacDonald, W. S. Ferguson, and W. M. Munro...