Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country, and that as such places already exist, there is no need for the many institutions that furnish advanced instruction. England, and all foreign countries in fact, are cited as examples of the truth of this, and as showing the good result of having few colleges. But those who talk in this way fail to take into consideration the vast difference in the state of social feeling of America and that of other countries...
...London Daily News says: The foreign office has reason to fear that, though Mr. Stillman, the Times correspondent, reported to have been killed by the Albanian Arnaouts, is safe, some English correspondent has really been murdered...
...best New York morning papers, in place of the ordinary recitations. The News editor maintains that as a good newspaper is the best common educator known, with a competent man to discuss the various topics in the paper, no better training in the science of government and foreign policy, and in modern and contemporaneous history and literature could possibly be obtained. He also holds that such a course of lectures would make the students more practical and independent in after life than they would become under the "depressing routine" they are now following. This proposition certainly sounds well...
...Kwong, Chinese students who lived in Northampton, Mass., for some time, and who were lately recalled home, write that the reports concerning the imprisonment of the recalled students are true. The boys are placed in confinement at Shanghai and so ill-treated as to excite the indignation of resident foreigners and missionaries. The primary cause of this treatment was the false reports of the Chinese officials in this country, which were aggravated by the avarice of subordinate officials at Shanghai, who sought their own personal gain at the boys' expense, and in one case ran off with their money...
...York stock market yesterday the general list was strong and firm throughout, and there is no disposition to sell stocks at present prices. The news from abroad represents the situation there as greatly improved, and the foreign houses state that the Paris bourse has undoubtedly seen the worst of its troubles for the present...