Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thrilling. The oldest of the two Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again...
...German student was once heard to remark: "What a spiritless land this America is, where you cannot find a dozen young fellows who will sit down to a cozy drinking-bout for about four hours of an evening!" This rebuke was greeted with a loud burst of laughter by all his hearers, and in order to maintain his aggressive standpoint successfully, and to convince his hearers of the truth of his statement, he gave a vivid description of one of these "drinking nights." The students form regular clubs whose constitution, by-laws, and members all centre about the beer...
HISTORY. The consolidation of Italy. 2. The constitutionality of National Banks. 3. The Hungarian movement for self government. 4. The Consolidation of the government during the first few years after the adoption of the constitution. 5. The public land policy with special reference to the pre-emption law. 6. The validity of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. 7. Have the principles of the Monroe doctrine been adhered to in the policies of the various administrations, and has the doctrine been misinterpreted by popular opinion? 8. The connection of the church with slavery? 9. Should the United States exercise a controlling influence...
...Harvard has certainly advanced. And we think that the day, if not now present, is surely not far distant when she will in every way be fitted to stand as the typical American university; when at Harvard can be found the most earnest students from all parts of our land...
...ideal, to perfection? Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!" To-day such words are only partly true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen of Romance" to wage war against the sordidness around; she must become a "home of lost causes, unpopular names, and impossible loyalties...