Word: americas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Culture then is the need of America, and classical culture is the only true basis of culture. Even so ardent an opponent of Greek as Professor Josiah P. Cooke, said no earlier than 1875, in his address opening the summer school of chemistry, that if he were compelled to choose, he should take classical culture in preference to what he called "science culture...
...conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need of England, how much more are these things lacking in America, in the land of practical ideas? Says Mr. Arnold in the fourth chapter of "Culture and Anarchy": "For more than two hundred years the main stream of man's advance has moved towards knowing himself and the world, seeing things as they are, spontaneity of consciousness (Hellenism); the main impulse...
...Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, England, and his lecture courses in the University there, will not prevent other visits, in the lecturing season, to his native city. The solid, and at the same time popular, instruction given by this scholarly and eloquent speaker is just what is needed in America to help direct aright the awakened taste for art in the community. Dr. Waldstein's lecture was repeated last Monday as the first of a series of talks on classical archaeology to be given this winter at Johns Hopkins University. Three lectures will be delivered there in February...
...proposed visit of an English team of amateur cricketers to America next season has been abandoned...
...appreciation of the valuable services rendered to the club by his unselfish devotion to its interests during the past five years, "unanimously resolve that, by his faithful, untiring and skilful efforts, he has brought the club from a state of obscurity to a foremost position among the colleges of America, Whether successful or defeated, the unparalleled and matchless form displayed by the crews of the University of Pennsylvania has invariably elicited the widespread praise of the newspaper press of the country, and has on more than one occasion driven the boat over the finish ahead of more powerful but less...