English Ignorance of American Institutions

English Sanitary Institutions

We gladly renew acquaintance in this second edition of Sir John Simon's English Sanitary Institutions with this fascinating and instructive history of human sanitary endeavour. The successful writer on matters of universal history must be a man of wide knowledge and of broad mind, able to sift and choose, to prune and criticise, and to weave the disconnected threads of record and tradition into...

Assertiveness, Compliance, and Politeness: Pragmatic and Sociocultural Aspects of ‘Brazilian English’ and 'American English'

This paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between Brazilian teachers and students of English, and intercultural communication between American teachers and Brazilian students of English. The aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both Brazilian and American speakers of English, and to connect these cues w...

American Institutions for the Insane

We subjoin an able article from the pen of a distinguished American psychologist, Dr. Pliny Enrle, on the present state of the principal Asylums for the Insane in the United States of America.* It is taken from two consecutive numbers of Dr. Hay's ably conducted and excellent periodical, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The reports upon which this paper is based are so difficult to...

The ( North ) American English

The Supply of American Higher Education Institutions

The Evolution of the American Higher Education System The American higher education system is the envy of the rest of the world. At the start of the 21st century, it is a mixed system of over 3,800 public and private degree-granting institutions. It provides access to higher education for a large proportion of our population. Its diversity is extraordinary. At one end of the spectrum are two-ye...