Word: european
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Advocate, last spring, gave us news of the opening week of the Turco-Russian War, and the Yale News now gives us a summary of events in one of the last weeks, condensed into ten lines, and closing with this comment: "Gloomy prospect for the Paris Exposition and European tourists...
Monthlies. - Atlantic, Littell's, Galaxy, Scribner's, Harper's, North American Review, and European Mail...
...work that the writing of themes and forensics will be found of material aid; for a large part of the editorials in the daily papers differ in no respect from the written work required from us. And when to the practice in writing we add that knowledge of European and United States history, of political economy, and of English literature, with which we may go from here so abundantly provided, no better foundation for a successful journalistic career can be asked...
...their manners are easily copied, and their mode of thought is easily burlesqued, nothing is more common than for an American, who is convinced that he is a gentleman, and therefore a different being from the vulgar herd, to transform himself into a burlesque imitation of the blase European. Harvard men are particularly liable to this temptation. Their education is more cosmopolitan - if I may use the word - than any other on this continent, and the name and prestige of their college gives them a perfectly proper feeling of pride, not unlike that which any man feels who is fortunate...
...newspapers and magazines are interesting themselves more and more with the affairs of other countries, so that it is now no uncommon thing to find half the editorial space in a morning journal, or a long article in a leading review, devoted to the last kaleidoscopic change in a European cabinet, or indeed among European nations. Unless the reader, anxious to keep himself posted on current events, is quite well acquainted with the different forms of government in use in different countries, he soon becomes hopelessly entangled among Gallicans, Legitimists, and Republicans; a vote of want of confidence leaves...