Word: foreign
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...MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. 1. The origin of the Medieval French Epic. 2. Is Goethe's Egmont a better work, regarded as a drama, then Lessing's Emilia Galotti? 3. Ought a well established phonetic law to be regarded as admitting no real exceptions? 4. Is it possible to determine with some certainty Old French pronunciation? And if so, was it essentially different from the modern pronunciation? 5. Is the influence of Goethe's Faust for good or for evil? 6. A study of Lessings influence upon German Literature...
...graduates of the Yale Law School number about 950, and among these we find 54 judges, 24 members of Congress, 85 State legislators, of whom 10 were also Speakers of the House, 5 governors, and 8 ministers to foreign courts. The present membership of the school is 68, including those studying for the degrees of M. L. and D. C. L., and the prospects for the school are very promising...
...Americans now at Oxford or Cambridge. In the first place, Canada is not as rich a country as, - say California, and the mere fact that her territory adjoins the United States, is no reason why she should contribute a large number of students to our colleges. Canada is a foreign country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada and the United States, but between England and France. The French portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America...
...prejudice and conservatism - advertising. A college can not, or from motives of professional etiquette, will not avail itself of the methods, which, for instance, have brought success to Mr. Pear, the soapman, or Mr. Redfern, the clothesman, or any of the other eminent advertisers who sell their wares in foreign markets. The college, however, is not entirely without resources. It can keep itself before the eye of the student public in a quiet, though not ineffective way. Last year, for example, the Ecole Politique of Paris, had one of its circulars posted for some months in the entry of University...
...money." And "no money" it will doubtless be, until Gore Hall falls a mass of ruins upon the spot which it has failed to enlighten. We feel some-what like the friends of our religious home missions when told of the success of their brethren of the foreign missions. Yet when the abuses at present existing in the college, simply (so affirmed) because of a lack of funds to obviate them, are once brought before us, we cannot but wonder how the claims of a foreign school can be preferred to those of our own. Our library, from a lack...