Word: americanness
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...endeavoring to attract attention outside of the college, it intended henceforth to neglect the college altogether; and the paper has consequently suffered from a certain degree of unpopularity. It is to be hoped that this will not persist, for the Lampoon is an effort unique in the history of American college journalism. It has been from the beginning an admirable exponent of the less serious side of Harvard life. It has kept up from the beginning the excellent standard with which it started, and it thoroughly deserves the support of all Harvard...
...altogether a college paper. Although it still retains the word "Harvard" on its titlepage, an effort will be made - as its editors announce - to "de-localize" it, and it is designed to have it fill, as far as possible, the place which has always been vacant in American journalism, - the place which is supplied in England by Punch...
...unworthy a person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs alone, and he had always had his share, as an American citizen, in its honorable name and fame. He felt the honor that had been conferred upon him, and with it a responsibility, for in the title was a new claim for upright and honorable action. If not a son of Harvard, he was her adopted son, and he felt...
...Committee, in closing, would earnestly beg the hearty co-operation of all the athletes of the various colleges. Assuring all such that they may rely on honorable treatment and every chance of success, and that no effort shall be spared to render the coming Meeting the most successful in American athletics...
...Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...