Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...unreasonable to hope that it will soon get entirely rid of a certain schoolboy spirit, which is not found in the professional schools, and which seems to have its root in the enforced attendance upon recitations, lectures, and religious exercises. This enforced attendance is characteristic of American colleges, as distinguished from European universities, and was natural enough when boys went to college at fourteen or fifteen years of age. The average age of admission to Harvard College is now above eighteen, and it is conceivable that young men of eighteen to twenty-two should best be trained to self-control...
...contributor to the North American Review and the author of several pamphlets. For some time he held the position of private secretary to John Quincy Adams, and was in Russia with him in that capacity...