Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Modern languages and foreign literature...
...quite willing to see them signed. I do not appear as a missionary among heathen and savages. The evils of intemperance in college life were worse in proportion fifty years ago. All habits then were coarse. Drinking habits in our American colleges are not so different from those in foreign universities. The speaker related his observations of the convivial side of student life at Oxford and at Heidelberg. He had early made up his mind to practice total abstinence and had never found occasion to regret his determination. There are perhaps a half dozen strong arguments in favor of total...
...enter upon a venture in the greatest of the African islands. It would be idle to think that this embassy will give new life or new directions to American commerce. On the other hand, the Malagassy gentlemen about to visit Boston are not merely barbarians stranded on a foreign shore, but men of rank, one of whom is likely to become the prime minister of all Madagascar. Propriety, then, requires that the embassy be entertained with decent respect, and that we be more prudent and more generous than were the hosts of the embassy in Europe...
...Letters of Junius. 3. Why are the Wages of Women lower than those of Men? 4. The New Tariff. 5. Is there such a thing as American Literature? 6. Journalism as a Profession. 7. Gentleman-farming. 8. A Metrical Translation of one hundred lines from any classic or foreign poet. 9. An Account of the Assassination of President Lincoln...
...correspondent on the scholarship question has erred to the extent that he has misinterpreted the remarks made by us in reference to scholarships reserved for the students of divinity as intended to apply to all scholarships. What our opinions are on the general subject of scholarships is entirely foreign to the question discussed in the editorial referred to. Our intention was to inveigh against the custom of giving scholarships which are limited, to a greater or less extent, to the use of students studying for some particular profession. We selected the clerical profession, as this profession is the one generally...