Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...morning." When the gentleman leaves, the same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however, from the results above given, I think that they have every reason to be sanguine for the future...
...Professor G. L. Raymond, who has been abroad for two years, has returned to occupy the newly created chair of oratory...
...upon the experiment of the Cincinnati examinations. By turning to President Eliot's last report (p. 11), the policy of the College in this matter will at once be seen. The fact that three months is by no means too long a vacation for those who spend the summer abroad may not have any effect upon the minds of the gentlemen of the Corporation; but let them consider that what they propose is not exactly a fair exchange. For granting us the three days we ask, they propose to take from us six days of vacation which we already have...
...RUMOR is abroad that a second meeting of the Senior class may be called some time in the coming week. If such a meeting is held, it is commonly supposed that the class will have to adopt one of the alternatives, - either to merely fill the vacancies which have been made by resignations, or to annul the action of the last meeting in toto, and proceed to a new election...
...have already said, rowing is a science, and must be studied as such. Now, if a man wants to acquire a profession, does he not go to the headquarters of that profession, be they at home or abroad? Certainly he does. Where are the headquarters of rowing? Decidedly in England. (Even if in America, the principle would hold good.) Was not Cook, the captain of the Yale crew, shrewd enough to see that, by visiting the Mother Country and studying her oarsmanship, he could eventually whip any American college? The rowing of Yale was much admired by English critics...