Word: britain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Warner of Rochester, N. Y., offers three scientific prizes: One for the discovery of comets in Great Britain and America, and two for meteoric stones seen to fall during the present year...
...been proposed to the House to repay to Great Britain the unexpended balance of the Geneva award...
...Higher Schools in Germany," that it is coming to be a recognized fact in England that the educated business men of Germany are beating the English "countinghouse" merchants in the field of foreign trade, in spite of English capital, and are every year encroaching upon the commerce of Great Britain. This is a significant fact. And in this country, as Dr. Peabody has said, it is to be noticed that more and more every year college men are becoming the managers and inaugurators of great financial and mercantile enterprises; "that a very large proportion of our most prosperous merchants...
...John Fiske will go to London to deliver, before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a course of lectures on American political ideas. The headings of his lectures are: "The Town Meeting." "The Federal Union," and "Manifest Destiny." It is said that Mr. Fiske is the first American asked to lecture before that body...
...Finance Club lectures are as follows: Feb. 26, Col. T. W. Higginson, "Young Men in Politics." March 4, E. Atkinson, Esq., "The Railway System of the United States considered as a Factor in the Polity of Great Britain and America." March 11, E. Atkinson, Esq., "A National Banking System Essential to the Effective Working of the Railway Service, and to the Subsistence of the People." March 18, Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., "The Modern Use and Abuse of Credit." Lectures begin, in Boylston Hall, at 7.30 P.M. Tickets free, to be had at Sever's, or of members of the Club...