Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scientific method" - the method that accepts as of universal applicability the laws of growth. It attempts to trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point out wherein they deemed a book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value...
...fault in our courses of instruction that I wish to signal out, but rather an accident in our college life. It is scarcely fair to expect men of the average age of the American collegian to compete in strength or breadth of mind with the older class who frequent European universities, but there are other equally valid reasons for our shortfallings...
Students at Harvard printed a circular purporting to be issued by a "Society for the Reform of the Social Habits of Foreigners," and aimed especially at the consumption of Limberger cheese and sour-kraut. The circular fell into the hands of European journalists and was gravely and severely commented on by them. - [Harper's Weekly...
...distinguishing principle of the forthcoming Science as an educational journal, it is stated, will be its entire independence of the school-book publishing trade. One of its important features as a scientific journal will be a monthly correspondence from every European centre of scientific intelligence from Norway to Italy, summarizing the proceedings of all the learned societies...
...devastation by the recent European floods is widespread and terrible. In Germany a large number of houses have been swept away, and thousands of persons have been driven away from their homes...