Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Johnson, honorary president of the club, it will be subsidized by endowment, thus making possible the proper attention to all details. The intercollegiate meet, including ski and snowshoe dashes, cross-country runs and a ski-jump, will be the feature of the Carnival. As students in all American and Canadian colleges are invited, excellent competition is expected. Prizes in all events are offered by the club. All competitors will be guests of the club during their stay, and will receive board and lodging free, as well as complimentary tickets to all affairs connected with the Carnival...
...President Lowell suggests in his Report that the departments should supervise the work of men concentrating in their respective fields, whether they are candidates for distinction or not. "All these changes are in a direction away from the mechanical view of education which is the bane of the American system...
There is here much surprisingly good verse, better indeed than I remember to have seen in a single issue of any other American publication. The Sapphices of Mr. Cummings are very fine poetry: the thought is straightforward and clear, the wording is singularly euphonious--as in a Greek meter it should be--and the rhythm expresses, while restraining, mature emotion. Mr. Hillyer's second sonnet on Antinous is richly conceived and adequately expressed; the reading of it gives me intense pleasure, in particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance...
...Brown '14 will give a talk on the work of the American Ambulance Corps at the front in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening, January 25, at 8 o'clock. Mr. Brown was for ten months the driver of one of the military ambulances put at the disposal of the French army by the American Hospital of Paris. The talk will be illustrated with pictures taken within the French and British lines...
...American Henley on Schuykill River at Philadelphia...