Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be generally admitted, we suppose, that America has not as yet a distinctively literary class such as England and France possess. But that she has a number of men-of-letters will hardly be denied even by those who refuse to admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution...
Trinity College has obtained the map of America in 1522. It was made from the ideas of Columbus and first printed at Madrid...
...MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 1844.I was born in Covington, Kentucky, June 10, 1861. My father, Charles F. Fullerton, was born in Dover, N. H., October 23, 1818. He was one of four sons of Eugene L. Fullerton, a physician of Dover. My grandfather's ancestors came to America from England, in 1744, and settled in Scituate, Mass. His branch of the family removed to Dover, where he was born July 12, 1783. In 1806 he married Rebecca Allison of Keene, N. H., and lived with her until his death, March 10, 1828. The following table will show...
...play with the interesting title of "Mitsu Yu Wassa" was recently performed by young ladies of Smith College. The play, which was written by a student, depicted the grief of some Japanese girls upon the return to their native land after being educated in America...
...recent speech President McCosh of Princeton said: "We teach every branch of high learning taught in any college in America. We have to make some studies elective. The obligatory studies are the old branches which have stood the test of ages, which trained our forefathers, and are fitted to enlarge the mind and prepare young men for their life work. Among these we have now and mean to retain the classical tongues, especially Greek, as opening to us the grandest literature of the ancient world, and especially the language of the Greek Testament. On this subject we are unanimous...