Word: american
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SERIES of papers on American student-life have appeared in Die Gegenwart. The author, Mr. Otto Gross, selecting Harvard as the representative college, calls her the oldest and most renowned of American colleges, and Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
...President, W. S. Andrews, '80; Vice-President, H. I. Thomsen, '81; Secretary, J. A. C. Wright, '81; Treasurer, H. M. Hubbard, '82. The club intend to procure and furnish a room. A meeting to adopt constitution and transact other business will be held Thursday. The managing committee of the American Chess Congress have written, urging that the club be represented at the National Congress to be held in New York this winter. It is hoped the club will be able to send a representative. Those wishing to join, etc., may apply to the Secretary, 9 Grays...
...Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used...
...Courant that there is a little hyperbole about the statement that to point out the faults of Yale's method of rowing is "simply to enumerate every one that can exist." In the article "To the Freshmen," the Courant informs them that they are members of the greatest of American institutions. Whew...
...first place this victory will have a decided effect upon American college rowing. It has proved beyond further question the superiority of the Harvard stroke, and the worthlessness of the system of rowing in which Yale has persisted. The effect will be to make final the adoption of the English method of rowing in this country...