Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Eliot graduated from Harvard in 1884 and received the degree of A.M. in 1889. At present he is president of the American Unitarian Association...
...needed in the game was primarily to lessen value of possession of the ball and this the ten-yard rule achieved. With its introduction there went out all the close hammering mass plays which were good for two or three yards on a down but no more. The American collegian, whether player or spectator, does not care for a game in which the element of chance is paramount. He likes to see or play a game where hard work counts, and a game where definite planning secures a well-appreciated result. For this reason he does not care...
...completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby '05, in the "Outlook" for October 5, 1907, to one of fewer outside games and more intra-college competition. Mr. Derby's scheme would leave the Yale game or some important contest, which would still mean with our "American temperament" considerable specialization and exclusion of other interests, and the undesirable newspaper and arena notoriety of players, but it might turn some of the side-liners into players and possibly into University material. If undergraduates and graduates are not yet ready to withdraw from outside competition in a perfectly frank...
...address he said that the American university today is graduating leaders who in the coming generation must have the prominent places in politics, in commerce, in education. To this end the university must be not merely a place for thinkers and scholars, but for education that is not scholasticism, but the co-ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type...
...American--"Fcotlight Fiction," by W. P. Eaton...