Word: african
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course of lectures will be given at Columbia this Winter on the West African languages, with reference to their bearing upon the problems of general philology.- Yale News...
...from 1-240 to 1-12 of an inch. This increase in thickness is due, in a measure, to the pressure to which these parts, as the palms of the hands, are exposed. The cells of this skin contain a pigment which is so marked in members of the African race. Absence of it makes what are called albinoes, and strange to say, albinoes are commonest among the black races. It has been suggested that this pigment in the epidermis may serve the purpose of protecting the true skin from the great heat of the suns rays. The true skin...
...scored in the college songs, which were sung with a good degree of vigor and "snap." "Piper Heidsieck" and the concluding "Medley" were particularly acceptable for their novelty. The glees were sung in unusually good tune, although in regard to expression they might be considered somewhat spasmodic. The "African March" was a very striking number. Mr. Carey's whistling was as good as ever, while the audience expressed their customary approbation. Although the Glee Club carried off the honors in the matter of encores, the Pierian was not behind in real success. Of course there was noticeable at times...
...total of 4,635 students inscribed at the Berlin University for the winter term there are no fewer than winter term there are no fewer than 354 foreigners, of whom 23 are Austrians, 58 Hungarians, 74 Russians, 52 Swiss, 80 Americans, 9 Swedes, 6 French, 8 Japanese, and 3 African. Of English students' there are only...
...Fifty years ago, said Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent address on Wendell Phillips, during my college life, I was chosen to debate the question of African colonization, which, just then, was new and fresh. Garrison was just then kindling a brand of fire that never went out until slavery was abolished. Wendell Phillips, a young lawyer, had just entered upon his career. Fortunately, I was assigned to the negative side of the question, and in preparing to speak upon that occasion I prepared my whole life...