Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrive at a clearer view of political affairs. Now who of us does not believe that President Eliot's views as expressed in his Bay State club speech, are the result of manly, conscientious thought? And, believing this, who of us would deny him the right of every American citizen to state his views wherever and whenever...
...following questions will be presented by the executive committee at the Harvard Union this evening: 1, That the tariff tends to foster trusts; 2, That the World's Fair should be held in Chicago; 3, That the result of the Pan-American congress will be beneficial to the United States...
...article in Harper's Monthly by Chauncey M. Dephew, Yale '56, on Yale as a factor in American life, will be followed by an article on Harvard by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and one on Princeton by Professor William M. Sloane...
...November issue of the Atlantic Monthly contains a number of articles which must prove very interesting to the American. The first article, entitled "Character of Democracy in the United States," is perhaps the best one in this number. Its author, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, brings out the four following points, viz: that the general forces of democracy have been undermining all old forms of government; that these forces had nothing to do with the creation of our government; that they nevertheless had some effect upon us as part of the general influences of the age; and that the problems of organization...
...more interesting record of a life upon the stage could be laid before the public. Mr. Jefferson is the fourth in a generation of actors, and, with his wife and grandchildren, there are six generations of actors among the Jeffersons. His story of the early days of the American stage, when as a boy, travelling in his father's company, they would settle down for a season in a western town, playing in their own extemporized theatre-the the particulars of the creation of his famous "Rip Van Winkle." how he acted "Ticket-of-Leave Man" before an audience...