Word: digestions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: Wharton's Digest of International...
...student, the materials brought together are invaluable. Mr. Windsor contributes some very able papers in the fifth volume which are remarkable for their literary and historical treatment. As might be expected from the varied authorship, the work, judged as a historical narrative, is often deficient, but as a digest of our knowledge about our predecessors on this continent, it is unsurpassed...
...This treaty grants us nothing which we do not already rightfully possess: Wharton's Digest. S 304, 306; U. S. Foreign Relations...
...gives up its rights and abandons its claims. (a) We have already refused more favorable offers.- (b) We yield in the head-lands controversy.- (c) Nothing is said of indemnity for outrages: Wharton's Digest, S 305, 305a; Boston Advertiser, Feb. 23, 1888; U. S. Foreign Relations...
...taught the principles of rhetoric and were required to practice English composition and once a month declaim. (7) Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning, all the students were taught "Divinity Catecheticall" and at nine o'clock "Common Places." These latter were common topics of scholastic discussion and digests of doctrine, argument or opinion. (8) The last place in the curriculum was given to history and nature. At one o'clock Saturday afternoon, immediately after the twelve o'clock dinner, the students were taught history in the winter and the nature of plants in summer, Historia civil...