Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circular has been recently issued by the treasury department which has an important bearing on the question of college libraries in America; more especially in our own case, since it is probable that no other college library received so large accessions from foreign books annually as does Harvard...
...study. Facility in speaking two or more languages is admitted to be a desirable attainment, because of the practical uses to which the accomplishment may be put. It is recognized, too, that the study of Modern Languages is the only means of getting at the treasures locked up in foreign literatures. But here the benefits of the study are considered to cease. The attribute of developing the student's mind-the highest function which can belong to any branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession...
There has been lately an outcry raised in the French capital against foreign students, the indictment against them apparently amounting to this, that they work harder than the general run of French students, and, passing their examinations more successfully in consequence, reap the legitimate reward of their industry and application. Their French colleagues, however, contend that the positions in hospitals obtainable by successful competitors in examinations ought to be reserved for Frenchmen-for those who "pay taxes; the blood tax above all." They would not go so far as to demand the exclusion of foreigners from the various lectures...
Harvard is the most cosmopolitan college on this continent. Almost every state in the Union is represented and many foreign countries We give below the states which send the largest number of students...
...foreign countries represented are, England, France, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey. India, Haweian Islands, Cuba, and Canada...