Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crisis in the foreign floods has not yet been reached, and the distress is hourly increasing. Thousands of people are homeless, and reports of fresh inundations are being received. More dikes and embankments have broken at various points, the inhabitants seeking places of safety as best they...
...college trustees to see that these expensive habits, so inimical to all true study, are prohibited, and that professors and students give heed to the important work for which the college was created. I believe all of these errors in our college management arise from a servile aping of foreign colleges and universities, in which imitation we go (as all imitations are apt to do) far beyond our patterns, and utterly forget that our colleges are neither gymnasiums on the one hand nor universities on the other, but schools sui jeneris, to be adapted to the peculiar conditions...
There are 128 names on the petition at Drury's to remove duty on foreign books...
...Shaffer, who announces himself as having been professor in the University of Pennsylvania, proposes to teach the people of Boston how to ac quire foreign languages. He promises "complete courses of one week each in German, Latin, Greek and French." He offers the French verb on the back of a postage stamp...
...graduate of Harvard, or, in fact any other college, should always feel compelled to go elsewhere for purposes of study after he has obtained his bachelor's degree. Of course we can understand the advantages of going abroad, where the elements of travel and living in a foreign land are often a great inducement to men. But there certainly is no reason for men to leave Harvard and go to Johns Hopkins. Harvard has as complete a graduate course as any college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become famous all over the world in their...