Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Scotland has always been a home of literature, Mr. Black said, the names of Scott, Burns, and Carlyle being written on the pages of its history. The literature of Scotland has seldom been higher than it is at the present...
...Naval Architecture; Italy has one at Genoa, the German Government has two schools of naval architecture, one in Berlin and another in Kiel. Neither is Great Britain wanting in this respect, having a large school of naval architecture in Greenwich, besides a course in naval architecture at Glasgow University, Scotland. The school of naval architecture is a part of Sibley College, Cornell University. The college is under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Thurston. The course occupies two years, but is so arranged as to require three years of preparation in a good technical school before entering upon...
...proposed bill is unsatisfactory (a) It would be unjust to England and Scotland - (1) Financially: Nint. Cent. XXXIII, 548, (2) It gives greater local rights to Ireland then Great Britain on joys: Churchill in Lond. Times, Apr. 12 '93 (b) It pleases no party. - (1) The English Rev. of Rev. VII, 236; Balfour in London Times Apr. 22 '93 - (2) The Protestant Irish, Nat. Rev. XXI 314 (Apr. '93). - (3) The Cath. Irish: Redmond in Lond. Times, Apr. 12, '93; Rev. of Rev., VII, 239. (March 15, '93.) - (c) It weakens the Empire. - (1) By dividing its powers: Chamberlain...
...Wednesday night Professor Peabody gave a small reception to Professor Drummond, who spoke informally on "The Boys' Brigade," a social organization of England and Scotland now being introduced into this country...
Walter Scott was born in August, 1771 at a time that may well be called "the meeting of two worlds"; the old world of chivalry and romance was then passing into the modern world, and to Scott it was given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early...