Word: americans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cushing, the compiler of the Index to the "North American," is now at work upon a general index of authors, designed in part for aid to libraries in cataloguing. It will contain over thirty thousand names...
...Saturday Review little thought what distress he would cause among our "very English" students when he wrote the following about Professor Hill's Rhetoric: "Into the higher arts, whether of oratorical or literary expression, the author scarcely pretends to guide his pupils; and it is needless to say that American tastes in both departments differ so widely from those of the best English speakers and writers, that no aspirant to success in this country would look for instruction to a professor even of Harvard College...
...TITUS, 3 Stoughton Hall, is the agent in Cambridge for Tiffany's American Pedometer...
...beat us; this would not affect our rowing Oxford, but we could not then go as "champions," on which so many seem to insist. A race for the "championship," while a very desirable thing, is by no means essential, as Oxford was not challenged to row the "champion" American crew, but simply Harvard University. This is the reason of our "indifference" about the Cornell and Columbia race. Cornell has everything to gain and nothing to lose; with us it is just the reverse. We asked her in a gentlemanly way to give us a little time to complete our negotiations...
McGill College. - At the annual athletic sports of the McGill University, October 24, 1878, Mr. Cuzner put the 16-pound shot 37 feet 10 inches, which is the best amateur American record...