Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wanted-to buy collections of foreign stamps. Apply to janitor of Weld...
...purity of the French language and the work of good teachers of French. The teachers who have formed the organization have decided to exert their best endeavors to check the abuses which have crept into the teaching of French, which has of late often been intrusted to individuals of foreign nationalities who do not scruple to represent themselves as professors of a language whose very rudiments are unknown to them...
...read it at school. He recalls the private school matches-games of the mildest description, pursued under the immediate eye of a master. He remembers his transfer to the world of public school foot-ball the punt about between hours, the compulsory game, the matches for "cock house," the foreign matches, the Old Boys' match, and finally the ecstatic moment when he found himself elected to the dignity of a cap. That cap be still preserves among the curios in his smoking-room and perhaps regards in with greater affection than anything else, inasmuch as it speaks...
...rector of the University of Glasgow, seems to have occasioned considerable discussion. A few days ago a resolution of inquiry was offered in the House of Representatives for "information as to whether the minister to Great Britain has received any title of nobility, such as 'lord rector,' from any foreign state, and whether such English lord is still retained in the service of the United States...
...strange custom in the boys' schools of mixing up the large boys of the first class with the little ones in order to break in the small boys to the school routine. In 1868 the Lyceum was established at Constantinople. This university is free to all Ottoman subjects. Foreign subjects are admitted on the payment of fees. languages, literature, history, geography, elementary mathematics, and physical science are taught. After much opposition and a precarious life, the Lyceum has at last gained a strong foundation and is accomplishing very laudable results...