Word: americans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...EDWARD ATKINSON delivered a lecture on "American Competition with Europe" before the Finance Club on Tuesday evening. The lecture-room was crowded, the audience being composed almost entirely of students. The lecture was an article which Mr. Atkinson has just contributed to the "Fortnightly Review," and was listened to with close attention...
...letters from an American now living in China have appeared in the Boston Advertiser. The writer advocates the establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek...
PROFESSOR JOHN FISKE will give next month, in the Old South Church, a course of new lectures on "Early American History." In April he will repeat the course in New York...
...satisfactory, and the reports of these results have been carefully suppressed. In spite of all that is said to the contrary, co-education in college is not a success in the highest sense of the word. Eagerness to persevere in it is a dangerous tendency in American society, and we sincerely hope that the day will never come when anybody will make the powers of Harvard believe for a moment that evil would not result from co-education here...
...team will leave that country in April, and will arrive at San Francisco in May, and from that time until the last of June will play through the States and Canada. Its games with the New York and Philadelphia clubs promise to be very interesting. The team plays an American eleven in Philadelphia about the 15th of June. The next team to visit the States will be the amateur eleven of the Lascelles Club, and as this club has practised base-ball in England lately, it will play with some of our amateur as well as professional nines, including...