Word: americans
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...year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred and sixty-one American colleges and universities are represented this year in addition to several foreign institutions, while last year 166 universities had graduates in the school...
Even admitting that American conversation consists chiefly of trivialities, it does not necessarily prove, as this writer appears to think it does, the triviality of our national character. He assigns a large share of the blame to the elective system of American colleges which have produced such a scattering of interests that a common ground for conversation no longer remains...
...English from 1880 to 1888, Assistant Professor for the ten-year period beginning in 1988, and Professor since 1898. During 1904 and 1905 he lectured at the Sorbonne and other French universities. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Last fall he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
...done. Congress is not likely ever to abandon any part of its prerogatives in tariff making, but a body of advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate a subject must be. And his knowledge of theory qualifies him all the more...
According to the present calculations about 25 or 30 members of the University will leave for France to join the American Ambulance Field Service after the mid-year examinations. If this number are sent over a new section of the Ambulance will be organized to be composed entirely of Harvard men to be known as the "Harvard Section...