Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Politics offers innumerable opportunities for American ability of all kinds. Our government has become an industrial organization largely--a system of industrial feudalism better organized already than old military feudalism. Concentration of industrial wealth and power means added government responsibility for the protection of citizens dealing with monopolies. The government will need hereafter especially capable business minds in politics, as well as mental leaders and political thinkers of the old kind...
...Clark has been a missionary in the Congo for twenty-seven years, first under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union...
...article of most genuine interest in the current number of the Illustrated Magazine is undoubtedly Mr. von Kaltenborn's report of a lecture delivered before a German audience on "The American Impressions of a German Exchange Professor." These impressions, it is gratifying to learn, are as flattering to Harvard as they are interesting. Mr. John Adams contributes a scholarly and appreciative review of Professor Hart's recently completed "American Nation." Of the two timely papers on athletic subjects, one is a somewhat scrappy criticism of the individual members of the basketball team, the other narrates rapidly the history of hockey...
...impression of a highly imaginative style rising at times almost to splendor, which Mr. MacKaye's delivery conveyed, is now deepened when one has the chance to read these paragraphs with care. The excerpts deserve the attention not only of all who are interested in the future of the American drama, but also of those of the Advocate's readers who study the art of writing. Another article by an alumnus, "Shall the Forward Pass be Abolished?" affords a sufficiently pointed contrast both in theme and manner. In it Mr. Reid succeeds in presenting a cogent plea for the continuance...
...Cosmopolitan Club there is now a common meeting place, where the members--now two-thirds foreign and one-third American--may, with mutual benefit, be put in touch with each other. At Cornell the Cosmopolitan Club has proved its usefulness and attained the popularity it deserves. We hope and fully expect that here, where the possibilities are so great, the society, although perhaps not much in the public eye, will grow steadily in usefulness, scope and power...