Word: foreign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russian Government is about to establish at St. Petersburg, a Polyglot college, where perhaps eighty-five languages will be taught. A Russian professor, himself speaking over a score of languages, is about to publish Mezzofanti's method of learning a foreign tongue. "Every man of average capability can learn any foreign language within a month," says the Professor, "and whoever fails is lazy or a stupid fellow...
Last Friday's issue of the Evening Post contains an admirable letter on the oft repeated cry for an American university of the English stamp. This premature call for something that is at present foreign to our nature is illustrative of the typical American. We are a pushing people, proud of our success and jealous of those who surpass us. The University is the effect, not the cause, of ambitions for trained scholarship. A desire to learn must come before institutions of learning can be successful. It is true there is a reaction exerted by the college upon the educational...
...declamations and readings. And so with many other subjects. In each case the tests should represent the work, should be a part of the work of the course itself. The number and delicacy of experiments, in Experimental Physics or Chemistry; the accuracy and improvement in pronunciation, in speaking foreign tongues; the excellence of original composition, in some of our English and musical courses; - all these are natural tests, and are also a part of the regular work of such studies. Such tests are, indeed, in many cases, already used, as a matter of necessity, by many instructors, thus proving...
...reviewer continues; - "It is not strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own." But do they? Does the writer insinuate that an English House of Commons is better than an American House of Representatives? If he does, is he the "patriotic" student he claims...
...will put in a disclaimer. I am no Anglophobiac in this matter. English ways and manners are right and proper among English men. They are part of the English system and dove-tail in with existing institutions. I only protest against their importation here where they are foreign to the climate, distasteful to the inhabitants, and ridiculous in the propagators...