Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...revived. Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after all, of the past...
...countryman seeing the Yale crew running on the street, asked if it were Buffalo Bill's troupe...