Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important questions as they arise, many men would take more active interest in politics. In the case of some topics (as the difficulty between the President and the Senate) one lecture would suffice; in the case of more intricate questions, two or three might be necessary. If possible, even foreign topics of such great importance as the Irish questions should be taken up. The lectures might be given in Sever 11 in the afternoon or evening, and attendance should, of course, be entirely voluntary. We have French, Greek and Latin readings, and the instructors in these departments do a good...
...University of Pennsylvania has students from nineteen foreign countries...
Unter Secunda. - Foreign European countries and their colonies...
...numbers equipment, and supplies of all kinds the northern far surpassed the southern army. Nearly the whole of the southern army was American, while one third of the Federals were foreign born. Bounties and high pay aided much in enlisting Union men, while simply love of the "cause" without hope of glory or reward collected the southern troops...
Professor Chaplin will lecture this evening on Engineering as a Profession. While the subject of engineering might at first glance appear slightly foreign to the thoughts of the Harvard student when he is brought finally before the question, "What shall I be," there are many students who would do well to consider engineering as an increasing means of an honorable and successful career. There is no profession, perhaps, which offers such sure compensation for honest work as this. The means of livelihood which are more ordinarily denominated "professions," are, say what we may about "room at the top," over-crowded...