Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...living makes it impossible for native workmen to compete without lowering their own standard. R. M. Smith, pp. 131-140. (2) They have introduced the pernicious sweating system. J. A. Rus, "How the Other Half Lives, " pp. 121-124. (3) An excessive proportion of our criminals and paupers is foreign born or of foreign parentage. H. C. Lodge, Century, Sept. 1893. (4) They are very illiterate. W. E. Chandler, N. Am. Rev. Jan. '93. pp. 6-8. (c) Our system of government is in danger because (1) there is a large increase of population not in sympathy with our institutions...
...Home Rule is desirable for England's sake. Nineteenth Cent. XXI, 165. (1) Home Rule would lessen the work of Parliament. (2) It would lessen the changes of administration. (3) It would remove foreign reproaches. (4) It would lessen Ireland's hatred. (b) Home Rule is desirable for Ireland's sake. (1) It would give greter opportunity for needful legislation. (2) An Irish legislature would be better informed on Irish needs, and more sympathetic in the treatment of them. (3) Law would be more respected. (4) Responsibility would sober the Irish...
...University which is intended to encourage men to prepare themselves for journalism. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald offered the University the sum of $1000 to establish a prize for "the best essay in English prose upon some subject of American governmental, domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest." The gift was gratefully accepted on the terms named in Mr. Bennett's letter which were briefly these: That the sum be kept invested and the interest there of be given annually to the member of the senior class who should write the best essay...
...There is a necessity for its exercise of such supervision and control. - (a) Of schools where all teaching is done in a foreign language as in: (1) Wis. and III; Nation L. 240 (Mar. 20, 1800). - (2) Other Western states. - (b) Of parochial and private schools; Rept. Com. of Educ...
...thing or another in the course of several recent games. This is, we feel safe in asserting, the work of outsiders and of men who have not been here long enough to catch the prevailing spirit of courtesy to those with whom we have to deal. It certainly is foreign to the best and largest part of student opinion. It is a practice which a man's individual instincts as well as his respect for the reputation of Harvard ought to make him condemn. The most important games of the season are still to come and they are the very...