Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those who make a study of Shakspere occupy a large part of their time, but that the "Society's work is essentially one of popularization; of stirring up the intelligent study of Shakspere among all classes in England and abroad," and for this reason cheap editions of the Society's works are to be published. There is not wanting a good deal of interest in reading Shakspere at Harvard, and it is pleasant to mention a small society in one of the classes last year which met once a week...
BESIDES the three serials now being published in Every Saturday, the last number contains a very interesting reminiscence of Agassiz by a former pupil, an article on "Woman's Work Abroad," and an entertaining story translated from the Russian of Pouspkin. "Kyle Griffiths, a Tale of the Welsh Coast" possesses only the merit of brevity; a hackneyed plot, told in the old, stereotyped...
...time; but this is just what shorthand is, and a year's uninterrupted practice of an hour a day is almost certain to furnish the ability to write upwards of a hundred words a minute, or thrice as fast as long-hand writing. So important is the system considered abroad, that stenography is taught in all the private schools of Germany, and attempts have been made to introduce it in this country...
...impression of woe more complete by contrast, there is sketched next them a chubby, smiling child, ignorant of what is going on around it. At the extreme left there is a negro, and in the background a camel appears. This is to indicate that Christ's name had spread abroad...
...since the introduction of the elective system, the idea of exchanging a year in College for one in Europe has occurred to some, and in some instances been acted upon. At present there are some absent abroad who purpose returning next year; and the writer, among others, adopted the same plan last year. The result was perfectly satisfactory to him. For those who have no previously fixed choice of studies or those who elect a greater or less number of modern languages the scheme is easily feasible...