Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the junior class, while many were compelled to stand. The services took about half an hour, and was varied with music sung by the choir and a double quartette from '84. The Baccalaureate hymn was written by C. C. Zeigler, '84, and was sung to the music of America. The sermon lasting about half an hour, followed. The preacher, Dr. Phillips Brooks, took for his subject, "Character, the link between life and knowledge," which he treated in his usual happy manner...
...view of the demands of the modern spirit upon our colleges, so well expressed by President Eliot in this article, it is pleasant to reflect that Harvard falls short of the requirements of the new ideal perhaps as little as any college in America, with possibly one exception, and that in the department of historical study so notably patronized by President Eliot, her position is that of a leader. Already the fame of the college in attracting the more serious students of the higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular...
...Harvard instructors there should be named as belonging to it, T. W. Higginson, whose current articles in Harper's are expected to form the basis of a work upon American History Justin Winsor, the librarian of Harvard, who, it is known is engaged in writing a critical history of America; Mr. Arthur Gilman, author of a recently published Short History of the American people; those recent graduates of Harvard whose work is represented in the American Statesman's Series of Volumes, such as Mr. Morse, the editor of the series, Henry Cabot Lodge and Mr. Henry Adams; to these...
...courses 2 and 13 in United States Constitutional History, course 18 in American Colonial History, course 6 and 8 in Political Economy, treating of the History of the Tariff and of Finance in the United States, and course 4 in the same subject, touching on the economic history of America; the opportunities of the student of the history of this country to be found in Cambridge are not by any means inconsiderable...
...foundation. This event will, of course, be of much less importance than the recent celebration at Edinburgh, but it is, nevertheless, one in which Harvard is particularly interested. For it was at Emmanuel that John Harvard obtained his college education, and from which he came direct to America to preach to the Puritan colonists. It was also the alma mater of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College. The name itself of Cambridge came after them from the old to the new seat of learning. It was still comparatively young-50 years old-when the New England college...