Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is great satisfaction about the promptness of the Corporative in getting not only foreign books, but particularly books that are published on this side. This is the third complaint made since reform was promised...
...power, so necessary to the good practical working of a nine, it yet provides a means whereby any dissatisfaction in the college with the actions of the captain can be given its due weight. But it does not give the power of final decision in such disputes to a foreign body, like the graduate committee; it refers it to an undergraduate committee, which is supposed to be more in sympathy with the college feeling, and yet influenced by the impartial views of the graduate committee. This undergraduate committee is, moreover, appointed by the graduate committee...
...long run, there is a great deal in our leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize the value of Poole's Index. The plan of "M" would in the end prove a still more valuable aid to many students in their daily work. To those who are doing original work in historical...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...
Turning to foreign universities, we find that in Germany the fees and living expenses are very much less than even at our cheapest colleges. In England, at Cambridge and Oxford. the expense is about the same as at Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars...