Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Joseph H. Choate '52, American ambassador to England 1899 to1905, and Gen. Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on "The Hague Conference". President Eliot will preside. These speeches will be open only to members of the University...
...North American Review--"For a Parcels Post," by G. von L. Meyer '79; "Prospects of Aerial Navigation," by S. Newcomb '58; "Corporations in Modern Business," by G. W. Perkins...
...first prize of one thousand dollars and a second prize of five hundred dollars in cash are offered for the best studies presented by class A, composed exclusively of all persons who have received the bachelor's degree from an American college in 1896, or thereafter; and a first prize of three hundred dollars, and a second prize of one hundred and fifty dollars in cash are offered for the best studies in class B, composed of persons who, at the time the papers are sent in, are undergraduates of an American college. No one in Class A may compete...
Essays to be considered must be mailed not later than March 15, 1908, and must be addressed to the "Chairman of the Committee of Judges, care of Clinton R. Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, 705 North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa." marked "For the William H. Baldwin Prize." Each competitor should mark a "nom-de-plume" on his essay, and enclose with the essay a sealed envelope containing the full name, address, class and college corresponding to such "nom-de-plume...
...pleasure to call attention to the series of lectures by Professor Zueblin under the auspices of the Ethical Society, the second of which will be delivered at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Under the title of "A Democratic Religion" Professor Zueblin throws the light of the best modern American thought upon some of the questions which present-day undergraduates find filling a large share of their more serious consideration. We venture to believe that in some respects the views of the undergraduates are more nearly correct under modern conditions than those of "the powers that be" in the University...