Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exhibit of American universities at the Paris Exposition next year, in which Harvard will have a place, it is planned to show the work of every department of the University...
...third volume of "American History Told by Contemporaries," by Professor A. B. Hart, will be published this fall. It covers the period of National Expansion from 1783 to 1845. Like its predecessors, the present volume has an apparatus of bibliography and introductory matter, a brief characterization of the writers, and a thorough index. The final volume of the series will be "Welding the Nation." Another book by Professor Hart, which will be published shortly, is "Colonial Children," the first volume of a series of "Source Readers of American History." This volume is intended for children, and the extracts illustrate many...
...dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will do an act of duty as well as charity. In the days of the civil war the arrivals of boxes from home were the most joyful events of the southern camps, and the boys in the Philippines should...
...following men have been elected officers of the Hawaiian Club. W. R. Castle, Jr. '00, president; J. Q. Wood 3L, secretary and treasurer. The club has twelve members, and is the largest of its kind in any American university...
President Eliot, who followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted...