Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...studies adapted to the careers they are destined to follow in the medical, military, marine and artillery schools to which they gain admittance on leaving the Idadiyes. Besides these schools the capital contains others of equal importance. There is a school forming professors for the Rushdiyes, a school where foreign languages are taught to some of the employees of the Porte, a forest school, and one for mechanics...
...present freshman class contains 253 members. Of these, according to the catalogue 56 come from Boston and suburbs, 45 from the city proper. The members from the different States and from foreign countries are as follows : Massachusetts, (including Boston) 149, New York 40, Pennsylvania 13, California 8, Maine 6, Ohio 5, Illinois 4, New Hampshire 4, Washington, D. C. 2. Delaware 2, Maryland 2, Missouri 2, Nebraska 2, Rhode Island 2, Washington Territory 2, Alabama 1, Connecticut 1, Indiana 1, Iowa 1, Louisiana 1, Oregon 1, Virginia 1, Cuba 1, Turkey 1, India 1. Total...
...that in common justice to the students, the faculty should refuse to sanction their action. When this is done, if the faculty still see any grounds for objecting to foot ball as at present played, we do not doubt that reform measures can be adopted, which may even receive foreign co-operation, and which will not in any case put Harvard students in an unpleasant position, nor impose upon those of other colleges...
...must be transmitted from generation to generation, by the fanatical intolerance which bars out all "new-fangled" notions may be imagined, but it is doubtful whether their scholastic ignorance goes quite so far as is related of the college engineers, in Constantinople. not many years ago. A committee of foreign engineers had been invited by the government to investigate the workings of the institution. Among the questions propounded to the mathematical professor of the faculty was one desiring the number of right angles comprised in a right-angled triangle. The professor requested permission to consult with his colleagues before giving...
...interesting to note that in 1860 the "University Quarlerly" was begun in New Haven, the arm of which was to represent and the various American colleges and scientific schools and to this end it had representatives from each of the principal American colleges as well as from some foreign institutions. The "University Quaaterly" however only lived out eight numbers,-its organization was too complicated, though the idea which prompted its being was excellent...