Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hekamer, president of the National German-American Alliance, has received from the German Emperor a reply to a message of greeting sent to the Emperor on the occasion of the visit of the delegates of the Alliance to the University Germanic Museum, severl days ago. The Emperor's message follows: "I sincerely thank the patriotic American citizens, delegates of the National German Allince, assembled at the Germanic Museum of Harvard, for the kind greetings sent...
SEMINARY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. "Material for the study of Municipal Government." Professor Munro. Sever...
...chair, and introduced the speakers. The first of these was the Rev. J. J. Farrell, spiritual director of the Catholic students at Harvard. He dwelt upon the increased importance of the organization, and upon its assumption of the leadership of the newly formed federation of Catholic clubs in American colleges, together with the great responsibilities entailed...
...which are: "Specimens of Argumentation," "Lyly's Endymion," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," edited for a series of school classics, "Principles of Argumentation," "The Revolving Hedge," and "The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist." Professor Baker has written also articles for the Graduates' Magazine, the Harvard Monthly and the American University Magazine. He has given several lectures, chiefly on the modern drama, at Smith College, Wellesley College, and other places near Boston...
...Smith is a member of the American Geographical Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England, in the course of this travels he has visited most of the countries of the Orient, where he has had unusual opportunities for acquiring an intimate knowledge of the land. He is thoroughly conversant with both the inhabited regions of the East and the wastes of desert and jungle. In exterminating the lions and tigers that infest many of the Asiatic and African villages, Dr. Smith has frequently been a great benefactor to the natives...