Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than ours...
...Gulesian, the native Armenian lecturer, delivered a highly interesting address in Holden Chapel last evening on the recent massacres in his country. Mr. Gulesian described the terrible sufferings of his countrymen under the rule of the Sultan, and deplored very strongly the inaction of the Christian nations, England in particular...
...philanthropic work in and about Boston. W. W. Comfort led the meeting, and G. Gleason '97, E. Von Mach Gr., H. K. Stanley '97 and B. Barton '98 spoke on the various missions with which they are connected. A Chinaman from the Chinese missions spoke in behalf of his countrymen. Twenty-two men were elected to membership and a number of new names were proposed...
...decision can not be overestimated. It is not a question of triumphing over England on the particular issue now raised. That is of inferior importance either way. The momentous question is, to what, when this is settled, shall we find our country committed in the minds of our own countrymen and in the position of the great political parties...
Eckhart is one of the most noteworthy examples of the believers in early German mystic ideas. He was born about 1260, and after receiving a good education he entered the Dominican order, and became a preacher of no mean ability. His beliefs, though rather startling to his uneducated countrymen, were by no means new. He taught the Catholic religion, but he was so original and independent in his views, that his preaching became the thought of a soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken...