Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question whether England would not yet have protection. England, however, is the exception. As a rule protection has been advancing, because, (1), of the fact that every man is a natural protectionist, eager to keep a market for himself; (2), of the existence of a strong national anti-foreign feeling, and (3), of the prevalence of the idea that government and legislation are all powerful. Protection has been growing, but so has free trade. Free trade was first recognized in our constitution. when no restrictions werned lowed on commerce between the States. Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, China, the English Colonies...
...official committee charged with bringing in subjects for discussion, with those of the Cornell experiment. This official committee is in the "Hopkins House of Commons" represented by the ministry. The Prime Minister is appointed by the Speaker of the House, and selects two collegians, Secretaries of House and Foreign Affairs respectively. The minstry thus constituted are charged with the government of the House, and propose questions in the form of bills, which are placed by the clerk upon the docket in the order of their presentation. On the refusal of the House to pass such a bill, if the measure...
...living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number of indispensable personages. It is noticeable, however, that there are no purely comic scenes in the play,-as if the poet felt that the subject was too harrowing to admit such episodes...
...beings that haunt such places in the dead of night. Hundreds of volumes were ranged up the sides of the walls. Ancient tapestries from Venice and Florence draped gracefully in the corners. Marbles and vases, gems and intaglios, represented the civilization of Greece and Rome. Knickknacks and curiosities from foreign lands lay scattered with studied carelessness among the books. The library was all that a man of letters could desire. I rubbed my eyes that I might be sure that I was not asleep. "O, that this were mine!" I whispered to myself. My companion heard. "And so are these...
...societies at Ann Arbor and Yale based on the same principles as that at Harvard, the Advertiser suggests the possibility of extending the co-operative system by establishing a business connection between the societies which may be formed at the various colleges. "In the matter of purchasing and exchanging foreign text books, such a plan would certainly be feasible, and there seems no reason why, whenever large purchases of similar kinds are to be made by the various colleges, wholesale dealers may not be induced by the benefits obtainable from large collective orders, to be more liberal in their terms...