Word: abroad
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...Furness is probably the greatest American Shakespearian scholar and ranks among the greatest in the world today. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, he spent two years studying abroad and then returned to Philadelphia. His "Variorum Edition of Shakespeare" is accepted by students of all nationalities as the standard work of its kind and has received warm appreciation from the leading literary critics of England and America...
...chiefly described only the exterior cosmopolitan life of a band of pleasure-seeking people, who, though styling themselves Parisians, are not true Frenchmen. What M. LeRoux purposes to study in his lectures, is not the caricaturists, but the painters of the French home life, which is so little known abroad. Many of these writers are known personally to M. Le Roux, and it is through them that the various aspects of true French can be seen...
...Committee on the Semitic Museum yesterday decided to hold a formal public opening of the museum next October, after Professor Lyon's return from abroad. The building will be furnished and the collections installed this spring. Several rooms in the building will be devoted to recitation purposes...
...leading zoologists in the country. For many years he has been a director of the Boston Society of Natural History. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, and of many other leading scientific academies at home and abroad. Among the clubs of which he was a member were the Thursday evening, the Round Table and the Examiner Clubs of Boston, and the Saturday Club of Cambridge...
...date. Professor Kuno Francke of the German department is now in Europe as the agent of the Museum. Professor Francke will devote a year to lecturing in Germany and Switzerland in order to arouse interest in the project and to purchasing objects for the Museum. Besides the objects from abroad, the Association hopes to exhibit from time to time many valuable German engravings that are now kept in the Fogg Museum...