Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gray, in company with Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, reviews, in the April number of the American Journal of Science, Dr. Candolle's "Origin of Cultivated Plants," with the result of claiming more indigenous plants for America than the Swiss botanist allows. A second article is promised in the next number...
...250th anniversary of the introduction of the Order of Jesus into America was celebrated in the Catholic church throughout the United States yesterday by appropriate religious services...
...roll in 1869 was 529. At the beginning of 1883 the under graduates numbered 969. The Western boys in 1869 formed about 8 per cent, of the whole roll, but now they formed more than 12 per cent. Forty-eight courses were offered in 1869 and 160 in 1883. America, with Harvard in the lead, was gradually reaching a position where she could compete with such nations as England. Germany, and France in the matter of colleges. Professor Palmer followed. He claimed that the greatest opportunities were offered to a student entering Harvard. His success depended on his judgment...
During the month of July last Rev. Edw. W. Blyden, D. D., LL. D., arrived in this country from Liberia, since which time the interest in the educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern...
These form what we actually know of his life. Where he was born and in what condition of life he was reared, we do not know and we can only conjecture. But, though he was but a year in America, we find that he received the epithets of "godly gentleman" and "lover of learning," and he seems indeed to have deserved them. His estate shows that he had a competency in England, his library that he was a scholar and a man of some culture; yet for either moral or religious principles, he left everything that could have been dear...