Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual migration of authors to cooler climes has begun. Some merely shift their homes in this country, but the majority are going abroad...
John Guy Vassar, one of the philanthropists identified with the fame of Vassar College, is one of the happy mortals who survive their own obituary notices. He has very sick for months, and news of his death got several times abroad; but suddenly he has recovered strength rapidly and is now in excellent health...
...said: We can see what would result from a reduction of the tariff by taking the wire industry as an example. In this country about ninety per cent. of the cost of production goes to the laborer. The raw material costs about as much as it does abroad. If the tariff is removed wages must fall or the industry cease. Why, it costs but seventeen and a half per cent. more for the needs of life here than in England, while wages are sixty-two and a half per cent. higher. Clearly no reduction of the tariff could be made...
...week may be extended so as to last several extra days. Dr. McCosh will probably make his farewell address on Tuesday, and Dr. Patton will be inaugurated the next day. All the prominent college presidents and professors will be invited to these exercises. After retiring, Dr. McCosh will go abroad for the summer. The elass of '79 will erect their memorial to him, in the shape of a bronze life size statue by St. Gaudens, in front of Marquand Chapel...
...been one of our sure events for several years; this year it promises to be very close between Berger, '88 S., and Mapes, of Columbia. The latter has improved wonderfully since last year. The mile walk will be won by Wright, of Harvard, if Lange, of Columbia, is abroad at the time of the games...