Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fenn will give a course of six lectures before the Divinity School on Liberal Thought in America from Priestly to Parker. The lectures will be given in Divinity Chapel, at 4.30 p. m., and will be open to all members of the University. The dates and special subjects are as follows...
...Junior Tournament will be held in New York April 16 and 17 and is open only to teams made up of men who have never won a medal under the rules of the Amateur Fencing League of America...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, the editor of the Century Magazine, gave an address under the auspices of the Student Volunteer Committee, on "Public Opinion in America." Before his main address, he gave a brief account of the work of the Tenement House Commission of 1894, which to a large extent remedied the wretched condition of the tenement district of New York City. Mr. Gilder then spoke on the general subject of public opinion in the United States. He said those who are watching most closely and keenly the trend of events note...
...many good things accomplished,- have seen slavery disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...
Student Volunteer Committee. Public Opinion in America. R. W. Gilder, LL. D. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...