Word: americans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present system of transacting business in congress is unsatisfactory and would be greatly improved by the proposed exchnage:- Senator Hoar in North American Review, Feb. 1879, Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of our Government, pp. 4-8; Nation...
This little book appears very appropriately near the centenial anniversary of Washington's inauguration. Its contents are already familiar, for it is merely a compilation of some of the greatest documents of American history. The book contains the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
Sanders Theatre was crowded to its utmost last evening at the performance of the "Electra of Sophocles by the students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts...
...easy flight of marble steps led to the court before the palace of Clytemnestra. The palace itself was represented by the schene and paraschene of the stage. It is impossible to enter here into a synopsis of the play. Suffice it to say the tragedy retains for an American audience an astonishing interest, and bring vividly before us the fact that in many ways little more than a long term of years separates us from the feeling and spirit of the Grecian time. Save during one or two chorus scenes the listener almost continually found himself so absorbed...
...Electra" of Sophocles. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Sanders Theatre...