Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Perry. Belmont, one of Harvard's favorite sons, has again been bearding a Congressional lion in his den. Very melodramatic accounts are given in the newspapers of a recent tilt between Mr. Belmont and A. S. Hewitt in the Foreign Affairs Committee room...
...last year the college found itself somewhat at a loss how suitably to celebrate this occasion with becoming ceremonies. With the noble simplicity characteristic of an intensely democratic community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first...
...their own and enjoyed their own profits. Had the Middlebury professors and students bought of one another, they would have secured two profits instead of one; for-to use the exact words of Dr. Hamlin-home trade and commerce is and must be just twice as profitable as foreign commerce. Let them adopt this plan hereafter and they will be on the sure road to wealth. When a student needs clothes, let him buy them of one of the professors, and when the latter need clothes let them buy of the students. The freshmen should buy all their books...
...Switzerland the medical students have taken action against the admittance of women in their schools. The ground they take is that, if foreign women study medicine there, the Swiss women will desire to do the same, and make the profession more overcrowded than...
Commencing Feb. 1, Charles Scribner and Sons will issue "The Book-Buyer," a monthly library journal containing a concise summary of American and foreign literature...