Word: foreigner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unfinishable process. What the judgment requires is range, and this is only acquired by trigonometrical exactness in establishing the position and measuring the relations of isolated points. Moreover, what a man has just learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues for a good while yet a foreign substance in the mind and becomes a pearl only by dint of that fretting which proves its alienate, and which compels us to coat it with the substance of our own life and thought and so to assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility...
There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
Twenty-eight foreign countries and every state and territory except three are represented at the University of Pennsylvania...
...members. Professor Lanman; An incident in the life of the illustrius Chinese Buddhist monk, Fa-hien. Professor Lyon; The recently discovered tablet of Raman-nirari. Mr. F. D. Chester; Ibrahim al-Mausuli: coincident traditions in the Kitab al-Agani, At-Tabari, and the Thousand and One Nights. Professor Toy; Foreign words in the Koran...
...three over the attendance of last fall. Of this number, however, but 296 are undergraduates. The graduate department contains 286 students, and the Divinity School 168. The remaining 96 are unclassified. The area from which these men are drawn is very large. Thirty-eight states are represented, and thirteen foreign countries. Illinois sends far the largest number, 332; New York comes next with a representation of 46. The total number of courses offered in the last quarter...