Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, there is yet room for hope that the Harvard society may be only the leader of a long line of useful organizations. If several of our leading colleges could maintain societies of this character they could act together in the importation of foreign books and in some other departments of trade, and could accomplish much more than any organization can hope to do single-handed. A moderate amount of energy and public spirit would suffice to found a strong and useful society at any of the colleges named. - [N. Y. Times...
...Young Men's Christian Association of New England Colleges has been holding its first annual conference at Yale College. Eleven colleges were represented, and the exercises were of an interesting character. College students were urged to greater activity in the cause of foreign missions...
...Senate, on Saturday, Mr. Bayard offered an amendment to the freebook bill, giving individuals the right to import books, etc., for their own use and not for sale, free of duty. Mr. Bayard explained that his object was to give poor scholars and students cheaper foreign books...
...being watched with interest by all students and readers of the country. The omission of the duty is of particular importance to the Harvard student as far as text-books are concerned, as in a very large number of courses in college the text-books used are exclusively foreign publications. At present the duty on these books makes the courses in which they are used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon us for the benefit of a few American publishers, who would not publish such books under any circumstances, however high...