Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flatter ourselves frequently that we are approaching to the true university spirit here in Cambridge as it is exemplified in England and Germany. Not that any servile copy of our pattern is to be desired, but we have great lessons to learn from our elder and more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought...
...Palmer, the author of the "Folk-Etymology," has undertaken the editorship of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adopted into English," for the preparation of which the late Mr. Stanford left a bequest of $25,000 to the University of Oxford...
According to the official report, 268 persons, including many foreign travellers, lost their lives by the burning of the circus in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, on Saturday...
...worthy leadership of the Argo and Acta we have seen whole armies of our exchanges plunge into the same paths of poetry, which are now worn so bare that the tardy straggler finds nothing to reward his journeyings. The Argo has excelled, as all will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea...
...Senate the bill relative to the exportation of tobacco, snuff and cigars in bond free of tax to adjacent foreign territories was passed...