Year: | 1780, September 5 | ||
Short description: | Adams proposes an American Academy. | ||
Medium description: | John Adams, the then future President of the USA, made the proposal to the president of Congress in a letter from Amsterdam. The letter also suggests that "English is destined to be in the next and succeeding Centuries, more generally the Language of the World, than Latin was in the last, or French is in the present Age" | ||
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