Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gift comprises the original manuscripts of several of the most famous works in the history of American literature, works by Hawthorne, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and others, and manuscripts by such English authors as Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Reade and various others as notable. It includes such books as Byron's own "Don Juan," a copy of Wordsworth with the poet's own annotations, and many other books owned, handled, and marked by writers of fame. In the collection also there are more than 200 portraits and holograph letters, many of which are of exceptional value...
...Discussion of Pan-American Relations. Mr. T. F. Anderson...
President Fitch writes of the "physical development and moral discipline" of military training such as will be offered by the Harvard Regiment. Dr. Sargent declares emphatically that military training yields inadequate and unbalanced results in physical development, and President-Emeritus Charles Eliot presumedly voices the American democratic feeling as to the "moral discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing...
...beginning of this war Americans felt that it was the price of the Balance of Power theory and the militarist policy of Europe in general and Prussia in particular. American ideals were not at all on that European plane, and yet today we see statesmen, business men and University leaders in full retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards...
...subject of such c0-operation, Elliot H. Goodwin, Secretary of the National Chamber, explained in Washington, was brought forth at the scientific section of the American Pharmaceutical Association meeting at San Francisco by Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, of Baltimore. It has been suggested that the National Chamber call a meeting at Washington inviting thereto the presidents of twelve prominent educational institutions and twelve heads of large industrial or manufacturing plants, each representing a different industry. Consideration would be given to the possibility of each educational institution handling specific problems for the industries, making experiments for them if necessary...