Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Women are now admitted as students in the Imperial University at Tokio, Japan...
...lies in the tendency to subordinate the state to the individual. Passing to the christian conception of the world, the speaker emphasized the idea that when we speak of the kingdoms of this world as destined to become the kingdoms of our Lord, we mean not merely China and Japan, but the kingdoms of trade, art, learning, science, government. The institutions, customs, opinions, feelings of society must become Christian...
...wife of the Mikado of Japan is a Vassar graduate...
...illustrious and more sedate of the company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious...
...devoted to art, literature, science, and to the correspondence of eminent personages in regard to the University, its august faculty, and all else connected with the institution. "Ideas" are solicited from everyone of note. If the writer's memory serves him, there was a communication from the Mikado of Japan, in which he berated soundly the methods of teaching his melodious language, now in use at Harvard. He regarded, however, the large number of students who flock nightly to see Gilbert and Sullivan's truthful version of life in Japan, as a sure sign that his native language was finally...