Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, of which Prof. John Williams White is chairman, meets today at 11 o'clock. Their third annual report will be delivered tomorrow at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America...
...last games of the Young America cricket club, W. B. Page, of the University of Pennsylvania, tied the American amateur record of 5 feet, 9 inches, in the running high jump...
...THURSDAY.Argumentative Composition. Special subject : Study of Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. Mr. Briggs. Sever...
...number of "Scribner's Monthly" is a most interesting article on Recent Architecture in America, by Mrs. Van Rensselaer; and among the comparatively few public buildings praised and held up for imitation Harvard College has the honor of owning three, the Medical School, Sever Hall, and Austin Hall, the new Law School building. It is the belief of the authoress that these buildings are not to be praised so much for any peculiarity or eccentricity of style, nor yet for any particular beauty, but for the quiet and harmonious designs of the whole, and she maintains that the buildings look...
...think that the new regulation is at all in conflict with the rights that the faculty has always reserved for itself, but still it is a tacit recognition of the fact that the high ideal set by Harvard has proved to be unattainable in America, at least under existing circumstances...