Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Battel Chapel, when the twenty-nine members of the graduating class received the degree of bachelor of divinity from the hands of President Dwight. The young theologians will enter immediately upon their life work, as their fields of usefulness have already been selected. Two of the members will become foreign missionaries, one going to China and the other to India. About a third of the class will go West and enter the home mission field. About thirty-five graduates and seniors will start next week for the West, to engage in home missionary work during their summer vacation of four...
...acceptances for the eight hundredth anniversary of the University of Bologna are still coming in. Most of the foreign universities send elegant letters in Latin; some are beautifully engrossed on parchment...
...Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah was a determined opponent of all foreign alliances, and even when Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem was, unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced him to return home. It was then...
...human interests,' even in the eyes of the freshest undergraduate. Harvard men and Cambridge society have very pleasant relations, and the annual graduation exercises of the city high school in Sanders theatre represent much more fairly the existing good feeling than does the petty criticism of Harvard as a foreign and non-taxpaying corporation...
...conclusively that one hails from Dartmouth. As a result, the true Harvard colors are seldom seen, while those of Yale, Princeton and Columbia are everywhere flaunted before one's eyes. As one who has been here three years, I feel that the custom which now prevails here is entirely foreign to the liberal spirit of the place, contrary to the laws of common sense and opposed to the feelings of a large number...