Word: russia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some friends of Princeton College have provided funds to send an expedition in charge of Prof. Young to observe the eclipse of August 16th in Russia. - Yale News...
...personal history of some of the students was 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...
...fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia, or the Home Rulism in England? Coercion must be stopped, else the millenium never will be here...
...first place, Canada is not as rich a country as, - say California, and the mere fact that her territory adjoins the United States, is no reason why she should contribute a large number of students to our colleges. Canada is a foreign country as much as Mexico or Russia; her sympathies are divided, not between Canada and the United States, but between England and France. The French portion of the race are simple, ignorant folk, under the absolute domination of their rulers, - the priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman...
...first place, great care should be taken not to make the course a "soft snap." It would have to be managed very shrewdly, so that there would be plenty of work somewhere, even if Russia took it into her head not to advance further into central Asia, if Germany suddenly decided not to extend her colonies, and if the whole Irish question suddenly ceased by Gladstone's yielding what is demanded of him. History pauses sometimes...