Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last fall the new scheme of afternoon and Saturday courses for teachers was fulfilled. Seventeen courses were given on the following subjects: architecture, education, psychology applied to teaching, fine arts, French, history of Russian literature, American history, Latin, mathematics, college algebra, music, philosophy, physical education, practical instruction in school gymnastics, Greek, and public speaking. There was a charge of $15 for each course. The first lectures were delivered about the first of November and continued until April 1. Although these courses were primarily intended for teachers in service, both men and women, yet other persons were admitted...
...debate with Exeter, which was discontinued this year, a debate was arranged for the first time in several years between the Harvard and Yale Freshmen. It was held in the New Lecture Hall on April 26, on the question, "Resolved, That, if constitutional, United States shipping engaged in South American trade should be subsidized." The judges rendered a unanimous decision in favor of the Yale freshmen. This debate did much to arouse a strong interest in debating in the Freshman class, which will probably be continued in the future...
Both teams were given light practice yesterday. In the morning Yale took the field for a little over an hour and had a short practice game with the substitutes. After luncheon the squad went to the American League game in Boston...
...intelligible twenty years from today as to the class of 1907. Mr. Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his own time in a thoroughly representative spirit. The poem is as unique among odes as it is among works dealing with the life in American colleges. George Ade has satirized the exuberance of the western "universities"; Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard has each its volume of "stories." The striking fact about Mr. Bynner's ode is that it could no more have come from any other college in America except Harvard than the life it portrays...
...author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics out of court. Such phrases as "critical ephemeridae", "there is a great deal of nonsense written", are likely to put the reader...