Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suggests a remedy. The editor is to be praised for eliminating from the argument the irrelevant question of the alleged "Germanization" of Harvard. What care we whether we are imitating the Germans? For us an academic practice is good, not because it is German, but because it suits American conditions and carries out American ideals...
...human heart, the love of freedom. And when he came to die he started the great custom of giving his estate for the advancement of education. A stream of benefactions has followed that first gift of the sick young minister, a stream that is characteristic of the American belief in education. And a host of young men, more than one thousand every year, go out from this University that John Harvard founded, and which has existed by reason of the stream of benefactions which he started...
...giving all due praise to the men who played so brilliantly, who can declare that any individual excellence will compensate for a defeat by Yale? Possibly the ideal of sport is a game in which the fun of playing eclipses the desire for victory. However unfortunately constituted, no real American team can feel that they have accomplished their purpose unless they at least break even with their strongest opponents...
...Warren graduated from Tufts College in 1870, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Strassburg in 1879, and the degree of Doctor of Laws at Tufts College in 1899, at Columbia University in 1900, and at the University of Wisconsin in 1902. He was a director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome in 1896-97, president of the American Philological Association in 1897-98, and professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University until 1899 when he came to the University...
...written, though the time sequence is clumsily handled at one point. The description of the lover's symptoms is now and then extravagant, and if the same restraint had been observed throughout that appears in the conclusion, the effect would have been better. Mr. Dorey's sketch of "An American on the Thames" is amusing, though the humor is sometimes a little forced. Mr. Mayer's article on "Josiah Quincy" gives a suitable account of a career which ought to be of interest to Harvard men in every generation...