Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honor of American scholarship, and to represent our interests in the field as well at home, it is proposed to furnish an American student to aid in the explorations by the Egypt Exploration Fund of England and America. It is also most important to have one of our countrymen who is versed not only in Egyptology and in the recent 'results,' but who is personally acquainted with our work in situ. Mr. Griffith, the English student, has, in two or three seasons of work, attained an enviable place among archaelogical explores, and his investigations at the British Museum, in connection...
...Harvard. He was followed by Chauncey M. Depew, Yale, '56, who spoke for Yale. Among other things he said: "Yale is always first in war, and as Harvard is always second, I suppose she is first in peace. But Columbia is always first in the hearts of our college countrymen, for she always cheers impartially and then attends the banquets of the winner. Columbia exactly fills the gap as no other does; no man with brains stays in Boston or Philadelphia that's the reason the cream of the colleges comes to New York...
...persons, and the fact that the lecturer, Mr. Ivan Panin, is himself a Russian, adds to the value of the lectures. It is certainly worthy of attention that we have here an opportunity of knowing what a Russian, educated at Harvard, and able to compare the works of his countrymen with those of Western Europeans and Americans, puts upon Puschkin, Googol, Turgenef and Tolstoi. The lectures are given every Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...which ancient governments fill in Europe as patrons of learning is one of our national glories, to which each year of history adds new lustre. We must all feel a pride in the words with which the distinguished English scholar, Dr. Lightfoot, the bishop of Durham, recently urged his countrymen to emulate our example in establishing a School at Athens. He said, at a public meeting in London...
...archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure him and his work for the benefit of his own countrymen. A beginning has already been made. The kindness of the Philadelphia students and the untiring efforts of Professor Ware brought together for the rendering of the Acharnians in November last such an audience as the old Academy of Music never before sheltered under its roof From that performance and subscriptions...