Word: americans
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Increase of Beggars in the University," and, as we read it, we were in full sympathy with the author throughout. It is divided into three parts. The first is merely introductory, yet very interesting; the second describes a plan of the author for lightening the burden of the "American poor-rate" (as he calls our voluntary charities), and how it failed; the third gives suggestions as to the best way of discouraging mendicancy. We quote the second part at length by permission of the author...
...natural faults are perhaps noticeable in a certain tameness of subjects and some startling effects in color, especially in landscapes, where an extreme verdure is depicted, not warranted by the droughts of recent summers. It is an encouraging fact that Boston - by reputation, at least, the most cultivated of American cities - should be forward in matters such as these, and it is remarked by those conversant with the facts that her artists are showing abilities of the highest order...
...those interested in the subject of rowing, and indeed to all those who are at all jealous of our national reputation, it may be agreeable to hear that, in the recent great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken...
...annual Convention of American colleges was held at the Bay State House, Worcester, last Wednesday. There was a large attendance, and among the delegates were many who have already won laurels at the oar. The meeting was called to order at 11.30. Mr. E. H. Luther, being the only member of last year's executive committee present, was elected chairman pro tem., and Mr. F. W. Whitridge, Secretary pro tem. In organizing the convention, ten colleges were found to be represented there by their delegates. They were as follows: Harvard, - Wendell Goodwin, W. C. Sanger; Yale, - R. J. Cook...
...been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry, which was by no means bad, found its way across the water, where he was received by John Bull as a new phenomenon of American life. Meanwhile, the critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted his words, and with most gratifying results. One eminent philologist discovered that in a certain poem ninety-five per cent of the words...