Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school has been in existence for five years. Its success has equalled the most sanguine expectations of its founders. It has furnished guidance and instruction to twenty-one students. It has had the sympathetic support of twenty colleges. It has won confidence at home and recognition abroad. It has a suitable house, with accommodations both for the director and for students. It has at its command the services of a distinguished scholar. Under these circumstances its friends make their appeal for its permanent endowment with hope and confidence...
...Eliot Norton, L. S., opened the debate for the affirmative. He dwelt on the necessity of equalizing the cost of manufacture at home and abroad, on the necessity of breaking up trusts and pools which tend to keep prices of articles above their value, and on the necessity of remedying the abuses to which the tariff have been subjected...
...then have a two weeks' vacation, looks triumphantly at the struggling mortal next to him who sees with horror that his first comes on Jan. 27th and his last on February 11th. Every time when this "mene mene tekel" appears on the walls of Cambridge, there is a panic abroad in the land. Let the capitalist, the owner of ten days' vacation hide his glee that the envy of others may be less...
...current year, 1886-87, he will be strongly impressed with the remarkable advance made during the past decade. In the number, variety, extent and attractiveness of the historical work now offered at Harvard University that institution rivals a German university. The American student no longer absolutely needs to go abroad for thorough instruction in European and American History. He can find it in Cambridge, Mass. All the methods which characterize the most advanced historical work and all the facilities for special research in libraries that a student could reasonably demand are in existence there...
These meetings will be reported abroad as entirely a student movement. They must be so in reality. It cannot afford to have the credit of success and let other people pay for it. Probably there are gentlemen in Boston who would not suffer them to cast ridicule instead of honor upon the college by failing through lack of money. Perhaps we may reasonably expect some outside backing, as the sum needed is not small; but it would be humiliating if we had to ask for it either in small or large amounts...